Impact of Religious Attendance on Life Expectancy

Mann, Joshua R.; Larimore, Walter L.

doi:10.3122/jabfm.19.4.429

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“…Nevertheless, a beneficial, or salutary, effect for religious or spiritual involvement on physical and mental health status is clearly shown. Professional medical and clerical associations and educational institutions are beginning to provide clinicians information on how to incorporate spirituality into practice [162]. Deistic, agnostic and atheistic people may have various and quite different lifestyles and moralities compared to their Christian counterparts.…”

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Religious and Spiritual Biomarkers in Both Health and Disease

Kharitonov¹

2012

Religions

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Religious thought and spirituality can be considered as a part of natural human capacities. There is an exponential rise in clinical research in the relationship between religion, spirituality and positive health outcomes. Most of these studies, however, have been primarily descriptive, rather than explanatory, focusing on identifying their underlying mechanisms. Almost no attempts have been made to find novel methods to mirror and monitor positive, and possibly negative, reactions related to the local and general effects of religion and spirituality in healthy subjects and patients. As this area of interest is rather new, we propose to put forward a new hypothesis that effects of religion and spirituality can be objectively studied by various exhaled biomarkers, some of which have already been developed and tested in health and disease. The lungs are particularly well suited for this purpose, as we have easy access to exhaled air and thereby a possibility to develop methods that measure compounds directly released from them. This work is the first step in the convergence of medical and theological research by linking various biomarkers and physiological measures with indicators of individual belief systems, religiosity and spirituality.

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Religious and Spiritual Biomarkers in Both Health and Disease

Kharitonov¹

2012

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“…It is therefore possible that any link demonstrated between spiritual status and health/wellbeing is restricted to those who already have a faith. 15,16 To date, the majority of indices developed for the evaluation of COPD have concentrated on physical, physiological and biochemical measures. 17 However, a person's attitude towards their illness can often impact upon the outcome in terms of morbidity and mortality.…”

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The development of a novel Wellness Assessment Instrument and its use in the assessment of wellness status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ansari

Keaney

Farooqi

2020

Perspect Public Health

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Purpose: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic respiratory disorder that affects health outcomes on multiple levels including overall wellbeing. More specifically, factors such as spiritual wellbeing, and psychological, mental and motivational status which may be at least as important as others, have been rarely studied. This article reports the method of validating a new wellness assessment questionnaire and the status of several wellness domains in patients with COPD. Methods: The study consisted of two phases: first, the development of a new Wellness Questionnaire with the help of focus groups; second, the validation and use of the questionnaire in a cohort of patients with COPD. For focus groups, healthy people ⩾45 years of age with no known comorbidity as well as people with a clinical diagnosis of COPD were invited to participate in the study. Results: Thematic analysis of findings from focus groups and original cohort respondents highlighted some factors that appear to influence wellness status. Five domains were explored as potential markers of wellness in patients with COPD. Quantitative analysis with Spearman correlation demonstrated a significant correlation between Physical/Personal Wellness and other markers of COPD progression such as Global Initiative Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD; 0.006), force expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1%; 0.01), health-related quality of life (0.009), multidimensional BOD score and quartile (0.003 and 0.02). Conclusion: The findings suggest that a combination of personal, physical, emotional, mental and other psychological factors is responsible for negative COPD outcomes. While there is a need to validate this new wellness questionnaire in further research, it incorporates new markers of wellness that could benefit management of COPD.

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“…Some have remarked that, regardless of the evidence about relationships between religion and health, "we should address [religion in medical practice] because the patient surveys are saying that we should be addressing it" [9]. "Most patients desire to be offered basic spiritual care by their clinicians and censure our professions for ignoring their spiritual needs" [10].…”

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