Trial reportJournal of religion and health2020
Investigating the Effect of Religious Intervention on Mental Vitality and Sense of Loneliness Among the Elderly Referring to Community Healthcare Centers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions against loneliness and social isolation in older adults- a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review of life satisfaction and related factors among burns patients.International wound journal · 2023Pooled it
- Interventions to improve social connections: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Spiritual Therapy on Spiritual Well-Being, Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy in Patients on Hemodialysis.Journal of religion and health · 2020Trial
- Understanding Factors Contributing to Vitality in Older Adults: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence Used to Predict Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Drug Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Review
- Improving psychiatric nurses' competencies in spiritual care and integration of clients' religion/spirituality into mental healthcare: outcomes of an online spiritual care training program.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- Primary care-based interventions addressing social isolation and loneliness in older people: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Experience of discomfort and its self-management strategies in ICU patients.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Empowerment of nurses for integrating clients' religion/spirituality into clinical practice: outcomes of an online training program.BMC nursing · 2021Article
- The Effect of Spirituality Intervention on the Anxiety Parents of Hospitalized Newborns in a Neonatal Department.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
- Online assessment of the perception of loneliness and associated factors in Colombian climacteric women during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.Health promotion perspectives · 2021Article
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Abstract
The growth of elderly population is among the most important issues in the world, and religious interventions can help them to keep their health. For this reason, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of religious intervention on subjective vitality and sense of loneliness of the elderly referring to healthcare centers. This semi-experimental study was conducted on 88 elderlies referring to community healthcare centers of Ilam City. The elderlies were randomly assigned into test and control groups, and subjective vitality and sense of loneliness questionnaire was distributed to them. For the elderly in the test group, twelve 30-45-min sessions of religious intervention were held. Then, at intervals of immediately, 1 month, and 2 months after the study, the studied questionnaires were redistributed again among the elderly, and the data were analyzed using SPSS 16 and through descriptive statistics as well as repeated measures of analysis of variance. Before intervention, there was no difference between mental vitality and fear of loneliness in the elderly, but after intervention, the amount of mental vitality increased and fear of loneliness decreased. Since in this study, implementation of religious intervention resulted in improved subjective vitality and diminished sense of loneliness among the elderly, it is suggested that this effective intervention be also used in other studies.
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