Religious Moral Beliefs Inversely Related to Trauma Experiences Severity and Presented Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Bosnia and Herzegovina War Veterans

Hasanović, Mevludin; Pajević, Izet

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“…This section will look at the differences in trauma outcomes between religious and nonreligious individuals or depending on the level of general religiosity. Some studies were excluded from this part of analyses because they recruited only religious participants (i.e., Baldwin, Velasquez, Koenig, Salas, & Boelens, ; Feder et al, ; Harris, Erbes, Winskowski, Engdahl, & Nguyen, ; Hasanović & Pajević, ; McCann & Webb, ; Tsai, Sippel, Mota, Southwick, & Pietrzak, ), they did not assess general religiosity nor religious affiliation (e.g., Ganocy et al, ; Gerber, Boals, & Schuettler, ; Leaman & Gee, ; Raines et al, ; Rosellini, Coffey, Tracy, & Galea, ), or did not compare the religious and nonreligious participants. Studies using the term “organised religiosity” were also included here.…”

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Religiosity and the psychological outcomes of trauma: A systematic review of quantitative studies

Kucharska

2019

J Clin Psychol

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Objective This is a broad review examining the relationships between religiosity and the psychological outcomes of trauma. Previous studies showed that some constructs of religiosity are associated with lower severity of symptoms of mental disorders, whereas others, for instance, negative religious coping, predict deteriorated mental health. Method A systematic review of peer‐reviewed quantitative studies was conducted to examine the patterns of relationships between religiosity and psychological outcomes of trauma, potential causal relationships, and specific effect of religiosity on the outcomes on trauma. Results A total of 79 quantitative studies were included. The majority focused on military trauma or various types of traumatic exposure in the general population. Most of the studies employed a cross‐sectional design. Conclusions The associations between religiosity and psychological outcomes of trauma depend on the concept of religion used in a study, type of trauma. There is not enough evidence to support the causal effect of religiosity.

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Religiosity and the psychological outcomes of trauma: A systematic review of quantitative studies

Kucharska

2019

J Clin Psychol

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“…[ 11 ] Furthermore, religious beliefs may have a positive impact on individuals’ physical health, and may help to overcome psychological problems and has a protective effect on mental health, which leads to improved mental health status. [ 12 13 14 ]…”

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Investigation of the effect of religious doctrines on religious knowledge and attitude and postpartum blues in primiparous women

Akbarzadeh

Mokhtaryan

Amooee

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Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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Background:Postpartum blues is a transient change of moods occurring in the first few days after delivery. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of religious doctrines on postpartum blues in primiparous women.Materials and Methods:In this randomized controlled tria1, 84 primiparous women who had average or weak religious attitude were randomly divided into intervention and control groups. In the intervention group, religious doctrines were instructed from 20th to 28th weeks of gestation through 6 weekly sessions of 60–90 min each. The control group, however, just received the routine care. Spielberger's anxiety scale and the questionnaires assessing religious knowledge and attitude were completed by both groups before, immediately after, and 1–2 months after the intervention. Also, postpartum blues were evaluated by Edinburg Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) 10 days after delivery. Then, the data were analyzed using Chi-square, paired t-test, independent t-test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Pearson correlation coefficient.Results:The results showed postpartum blues in 59.5% of the study participants. Besides, the results of independent t-test revealed a statistically significant difference between the two groups regarding the mean score of postpartum blues (P = 0.036). Although the intervention group's knowledge and attitude scores were higher than those of the control group, no significant difference was found between the two groups regarding the correlation coefficient between postpartum blues and religious knowledge (P = 0.088) and religious attitude (P = 0.7).Conclusions:The results of the study show that instruction of religious doctrines was effective in increasing the religious knowledge and attitudes and reducing the postpartum blues.

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“…Several other studies have explored the relationship between symptoms of war trauma and religiosity, with mixed findings. 18 A study of 120 Bosnian-Herzegovinian veterans of the Bosnian war finds that PTSD is negatively related to religiosity (Hasanović and Pajević 2015).…”

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Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital

Cesur¹,

Freidman²,

Sabia³

2018

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While the relationship between adverse health shocks and health care utilization has been studied extensively, next to nothing is known about the effect of health shocks on religiosity, which may serve as an alternative to secular psychological services and interventions. Filling this gap in knowledge is important given that religious-based psychological counseling services have grown substantially in recent decades, and the relative mental health benefits of religion as compared to secular counseling services are not well-known. This study uses the setting of war to study the impact of health trauma on religiosity. Exploiting the administrative procedures by which U.S. Armed Forces senior commanders conditionally randomly assign active-duty servicemen to war deployments as a natural experiment, we find that post-9/11 combat exposure substantially increases the probability that a serviceman subsequently attends religious services and engages in private prayer. Estimated effects are largest for enlisted servicemen, those under age 25, and servicemen wounded in combat. The physical and psychological health effects of war, as well as the presence of military chaplains in combat zones, emerge as partial mechanisms to explain increases in religiosity. We find only weak evidence that combat service differentially affects servicemen's demand for religious counseling as compared to secular psychological services.

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Religious Moral Beliefs Inversely Related to Trauma Experiences Severity and Presented Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Bosnia and Herzegovina War Veterans

Cited by 15 publications

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Religiosity and the psychological outcomes of trauma: A systematic review of quantitative studies

Religiosity and the psychological outcomes of trauma: A systematic review of quantitative studies

Investigation of the effect of religious doctrines on religious knowledge and attitude and postpartum blues in primiparous women

Traumatic Health Shocks and Spiritual Capital

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