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Observational studyJournal of religion and health2024

Triangulation of Questionnaires, Qualitative Data and Natural Language Processing: A Differential Approach to Religious Bahá'í Fasting in Germany.

Nico Steckhan, Raphaela Ring, Florian Borchert, Daniela A Koppold

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Observational study in Journal of religion and health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03443739 (Medical And Psychological Effects of Nineteen Days of Intermittent Religious Fasting for Followers of the Bahá'í Faith- an Observational Study), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT03443739 completednot on this map

Medical And Psychological Effects of Nineteen Days of Intermittent Religious Fasting for Followers of the Bahá'í Faith- an Observational Study

TypeobservationalSponsorCharite University, Berlin, GermanyRan2018 to 2019Enrolled145ConditionsHealth Behavior, HealthyArmsIntermittent Fasting
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nico SteckhanDigital Health, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 14482, Potsdam, Germany. nico.steckhan@hpi.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0245-2046
Raphaela RingInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
Florian BorchertDigital Health, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, 14482, Potsdam, Germany.
Daniela A KoppoldInstitute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
Hasso Plattner Institute · DEHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Approaches to integrating mixed methods into medical research are gaining popularity. To get a holistic understanding of the effects of behavioural interventions, we investigated religious fasting using a triangulation of quantitative, qualitative, and natural language analysis. We analysed an observational study of Bahá'í fasting in Germany using a between-method triangulation that is based on links between qualitative and quantitative analyses. Individual interviews show an increase in the mindfulness and well-being categories. Sentiment scores, extracted from the interviews through natural language processing, positively correlate with questionnaire outcomes on quality of life (WHO-5: Spearman correlation r = 0.486, p = 0.048). Five questionnaires contribute to the first principal component capturing the spectrum of mood states (50.1% explained variance). Integrating the findings of the between-method triangulation enabled us to converge on the underlying effects of this kind of intermittent fasting.

trial registrationNCT03443739.

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FastingNatural Language ProcessingAdultFemaleGermanyHumansIslamMaleMiddle AgedMindfulnessQualitative ResearchQuality of LifeSurveys and QuestionnairesIntermittent fastingMindfulnessMixed methodsReligious fastingTriangulation

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