Is It Possible to Determine the Level of Spiritual Well-Being by Measuring Heart Rate Variability During the Reading of Heavenly Books?

Mashhadimalek, Maysam; Dabanloo, Nader Jafarnia; Gharibzadeh, Shahriar

doi:10.1007/s10484-019-09433-3

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“…After a neuropsychological evaluation to confirm their functioning, 83 participants completed the SWBS, Beck Depression Inventory II, and The Beck Anxiety Inventory. They found that there was a negative correlation between the BDI-II score and the EWB score as well as the BAI score and the EWB score [28]. They concluded that EWB may protect TBI patients from anxious and depressive symptoms.…”

Section: Traumatic Brain Injurymentioning

confidence: 98%

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The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) as an Indicator of General Well-Being

Bufford¹,

Cantley²,

Hallford³

et al. 2023

Happiness and Wellness - Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives

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Developed in the context of the subjective well-being movement in the 1970s, the Spiritual Well -Being Scale (SWBS) has stood the test of time. It was conceived within a theistic tradition and embodied the sense of well-being suggested in Biblical texts. The Old Testament greeting and blessing, shalom, seems to convey well the underlying concept of well-being. In this chapter we explore the empirical support and practical significance of the SWBS as a measure of well-being using the notion of biopsychosocial health as proposed by Engel and adapted by Sulmasy to include a religious/spiritual (R/S) dimension as well. Since the 1980s, thousands of studies have been completed and over 20 translations of the scale have been carried out. This chapter will concentrate on research since publication of Paloutzian, et al. Mr. Rogers used to sing, “Everything grows together because we’re all one piece.” Here our thesis is that everything goes together—biopsychosocial and spiritual—because humans function holistically. The SWBS captures this reality well. As a result, the SWBS functions as an index of well-being, an assessment instrument to identify those whose functioning is impaired, and an index of outcomes for interventions that seek to foster well-being.

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Section: Traumatic Brain Injurymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Mashhadimalek et al [28] examined the association of heart rate variability (HRV), considered a barometer of health, and SWBS among a sample of 31 of Farsispeaking Muslims. They used cluster analysis to form to groups that differed in SWBS scores.…”

Section: Coronary Artery Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) as an Indicator of General Well-Being

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Cantley²,

Hallford³

et al. 2023

Happiness and Wellness - Biopsychosocial and Anthropological Perspectives

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“…Spirituality is about the search for ultimate or transcendent meaning from different sources: religious practice, interpersonal relationship, connectedness with nature, music and the arts [5]. There is now substantial literature which demonstrates the positive effect of religious and spiritual beliefs on quality of life [6][7][8] and its indicators such as sleep quality and health status [9,10], heart activity and heart failure-specific health status [11,12]. Recent Lithuanian study determined the association of individually perceived importance of religiosity and spirituality with spiritual wellbeing and unmet spiritual needs [13].…”

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Spiritual needs, prayer and cardiac function changes in healthy young women – the interconnection of spirituality with human physiology

Riklikienė¹,

Poskaite²,

Vainoras³

2019

J., complex., health sci.

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The aim was to assess the cardiac function of healthy women by applying the spiritual intervention, i.e. a prayer, in different circumstances. Methods: a descriptive, intervention study design was used. The data were collected during three weeks in May, 2019. A total of 39 women with normal physiologic health at the age of 25-50 years who considered themselves as religious persons participated in the study. The cardiac-spiritual intervention process consisted of nine episodes with the heart rate measurements applied. For data recording and analysis researchers used ECG system Kaunas-Load that was developed at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. With the ECG record RR interval, HRV and ST interval amplitude were analysed. The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) was used to assess the spiritual needs of participants. Data were recorded and analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Statistics) version 25.0. Results: Religious and Existential needs were the most important spiritual needs for women. Existential needs the most strongly correlated with Religious needs and needs of Inner peace. The reactions to prayer were more expressed in women of older age. The general tendency of increase in RR average during the praying episodes was observed; at resting position women's heart rate decreased. During all phases of the study, the HR spectrum power was higher in the group of women with stronger expression of their unmet spiritual needs and the general physiologic condition of these women was also better. The increasing significant (< 0.1) relationship between spiritual needs scores and changes of women heart rate was observed during pray episodes of spiritual intervention process. Conclusions: changes in the heart rate of healthy women during separate episodes of spiritual intervention demonstrated the reaction toward prayer. Individual or group praying caused the calming effect for women under the study. Assessment of unmet spiritual needs of women and the relationship with the heart rate changes during spiritual intervention process supported the idea that heart activity depends on the level of personal religiosity and spirituality.

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