Religiosity, Spirituality and Biopsychological Age of Professionals in Russia

Koteneva, Anna; Berezina, Tatiana; Rybtsov, Stanislav

doi:10.3390/ejihpe11040089

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“…RIAGE -Revista Ibero-Americana da Gerontologia -Número 5 | junho de 2024 Regarding spirituality, a statistically significant relationship was found with the female sex, experience and training in PC, and a positive linear correlation with age. The literature indicates that spirituality is strongly linked to age and gender (Koteneva et al, 2021;MahdiNejad et al, 2021;Nidhi, 2022). The spiritual dimension assumes its fullness at more advanced ages, with females being more oriented toward existential issues.…”

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Level of Knowledge in Palliative Care, Preparation and Capacity to Provide Care at the End of Life by Health Professionals

Martins,

Rodrigues,

Marques

et al. 2024

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The predominance of slowly evolving chronic-degenerative diseases, resulting from the progressive aging of the population, has increased the need for the provision of palliative care (PC). In this context, there is an interest in evaluating the skills and abilities of health professionals. The present study aims to identify the level of: knowledge in PC, spirituality, self-efficacy and ability to provide end-of-life care (CFV) by doctors and nurses working in a hospital center. We also seek to understand the academic and clinical trajectory in learning and training in PC and discuss the inclusion of educational programs in this area. This is a quantitative, observational and cross-sectional study applied to doctors and nurses working in a hospital center, with contact with patients at the end of life. The data collection instrument included a questionnaire administered between May and July 2022. The variables were evaluated using IBM SPSS for Windows (V.26). As a result, we observed that doctors and nurses (n=380) have medium to low levels of knowledge in PC. Perceptions of spirituality, emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and preparation and ability to provide CFV revealed a moderate overall mean value. Most professionals do not have training or experience in CP. The levels of perception of emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and ability to provide CFV by health professionals are average. Knowledge in CP is low, because they are unaware of some of the principles. It is suggested that a subject on PC be included as a mandatory subject in higher education health courses.

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Level of Knowledge in Palliative Care, Preparation and Capacity to Provide Care at the End of Life by Health Professionals

Martins,

Rodrigues,

Marques

et al. 2024

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“…Perhaps, they are more prone to risky behavior. Previously, it was shown that the mismatch of biological and psychological ages is a dangerous indicator and may be associated with the effects of stress, due to retirement [24] or professional circumstances [29].…”

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The Biopsychological Indicators of Age Significantly Influence the Severity of COVID-19

Berezina

Rybtsov

2021

The 1st International Electronic Conference on Biomedicine

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Objective. To study the effect of biopsychological age indicators on the likelihood and severity of COVID-19 disease in adults in 2020. We have examined 447 people aged 35–70 years using methods for assessing biological and psychological age in terms of health indicators and subjective psychological age. Results. The number of cases at the end of 2020 in the group of working adults was 31%, in the risk group 0%; representatives of the risk group complied with the quarantine requirements 1.75 times stricter. Indicators of biopsychological age affected the development of the disease in working adults. The relative biological age of an individual had a direct impact on the risk of infection (p < 0.05), and on the probability of the patient’s death (p < 0.001). The relative psychological age had an inverse effect on the risk of infection at the tendency level (p = 0.06) and the death risk of those infected, (p < 0.001). Calendar age increases the risk of infection and the risk of death at the trend level. Conclusions. Indicators of relative biological and psychological aging of an individual affect the frequency and severity of the disease, while the combination of high indicators of biological age and underestimated psychological age dangerously increases the likelihood of developing severe forms of the disease.

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“…They calculated the correlation coefficient between the variables that are part of the methodology. They showed a good correlation between all the indicators, which shows the structural reliability of the test [ 42 ]. Before we started our study, we assessed the retest reliability of the biological age (BA) measurement method using the Pearson’s correlation coefficient.…”

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“…This includes both turning to traditional religions, and engaging in various practices of self-improvement, hobbies aimed at finding the meaning of life, etc. It has been proven that religiosity and observance of religious rites have a positive effect on subjective health and slow down the biological aging of representatives of dangerous professions [ 42 ].…”

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Use of Personal Resources May Influence the Rate of Biological Aging Depending on Individual Typology

Berezina

Rybtsov

2022

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Individual hobbies and interests, the ways of spending leisure time develop personal resources influencing health and wellbeing. The literature analysis helped selecting thirteen personal resources that also affect the rate of aging: sports, order, creativity, intellect, handwork, kindness, Humor, spirituality, risk, nature, achievements, optimism, communication. In 1632 people, (840 women and 792 men) personal resources were assessed using a questionnaire developed in-house. Biological age was determined by health indicators. The personal typology was determined by testing functional asymmetry, physique, interaction style, emotionality, profession, marital status, gender, age, and place of residence. The data were processed by correlation and cluster analysis and methods of automatic artificial neural networks (ANN). Personal resources were used as input continuous variables. Personality types were used as input categorical variables. The index of relative biological aging (RBA) was applied as an output continuous variable. We also calculated the correlation between the RBA index and the applied personal resources in different types of personalities. For most female types including investigative occupations, psychomotor emotionality, living in urban areas, asthenic physique, negative correlations were found between most personal resources and the aging index. In men, resources that slow down aging are found only for certain types: enterprising and conventional professions, ambidexter and left-handed, intellectual emotionality, athletic physique. In conclusion, with the help of the trained ANN, we selected personal resources that slow down aging. For women of all types, there are common resources reducing RBA index including nature, intellect, and achievements. For men, ANN was unable to find common resources that slow down aging. However, with an individual selection of resources, a trained neural network gives a favorable forecast of the ability to slow down the biological aging of a particular man by changing his hobbies and interests and ways of spending free time.

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Religiosity, Spirituality and Biopsychological Age of Professionals in Russia

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Level of Knowledge in Palliative Care, Preparation and Capacity to Provide Care at the End of Life by Health Professionals

Level of Knowledge in Palliative Care, Preparation and Capacity to Provide Care at the End of Life by Health Professionals

The Biopsychological Indicators of Age Significantly Influence the Severity of COVID-19

Use of Personal Resources May Influence the Rate of Biological Aging Depending on Individual Typology

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