Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Giancarlo Lucchetti, Harold G. Koenig, Alessandra Lamas Granero Lucchetti
Summary: Research on the relationship between spirituality/religiousness and mental health shows significant evidence of impact, with various psychiatric disorders being linked to these factors. The coping mechanisms involving religious beliefs may affect mental health outcomes, and further study is needed to understand the mechanisms and role of spiritual/religious interventions.
WORLD JOURNAL OF CLINICAL CASES
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Daniel T. L. Shek, Wenyu Chai, Lindan Tan
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between anxiety, depression, and spirituality among Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings suggest that anxiety predicts depression, and spirituality acts as a protective factor against psychological morbidity. The study emphasizes the importance of helping adolescents develop a sense of life meaning during challenging times.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology
G. Tyler Lefevor, Edward B. Davis, Jaqueline Y. Paiz, Abigail C. P. Smack
Summary: Research suggests a positive relationship between religiousness/spirituality (R/S) and health in sexual minorities, especially when R/S is conceptualized as spirituality or religious cognition. However, there is a significant amount of residual heterogeneity in this relationship among sexual minorities, and sampling from sexual minority venues may lead to the disappearance or negativity of this relationship.
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Tulus Winarsunu, Lintang Aulia Utami, Siti Suminarti Fasikhah, Zainul Anwar
Summary: This study aimed to determine the effect of hope therapy on reducing hopelessness and increasing internal locus of control in people with diabetes mellitus (DM). The results showed that there were differences in internal locus of control and hopelessness between the experimental group and control group, indicating that hope therapy can decrease hopelessness and increase internal locus of control in people with DM.
Article
Oncology
Qinqin Cheng, Wen Lu, Yinglong Duan, Juan Li, Jianfei Xie, Yongyi Chen
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the spiritual well-being of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer patients and its association with hope and meaning in life. The results showed that GI cancer patients experienced a relatively low level of spiritual well-being, which was associated with the presence of meaning, inner positive readiness and expectancy, residence, and search for meaning. Therefore, healthcare professionals can improve the spiritual well-being of GI cancer patients by enhancing their sense of meaning in life and inner positive readiness and expectancy.
SUPPORTIVE CARE IN CANCER
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Qi Liu, Ka-Yan Ho, Katherine-Ka-Wai Lam, Winsome Lam, Polly Ma, Hammoda Abu-Odah, Getaneh Mulualem Belay, John Wai Man Yuen, Dong-lan Ling, Shirley-Siu-Yin Ching, Frances-Kam-Yuet Wong
Summary: This study aimed to test a model that examines the protective role of hope and spiritual well-being against anxiety and depressive symptoms in childhood cancer patients. The results showed that hope and spiritual well-being mutually reinforce each other and are negatively associated with anxiety and depressive symptoms. These findings support the integration of spiritual and hope elements in interventions to improve the well-being of pediatric cancer patients.
Article
Psychiatry
Yuanling Tao, Huazheng Yu, Suting Liu, Chenxi Wang, Mi Yan, Li Sun, Zongtao Chen, Lili Zhang
Summary: This study demonstrates the mediating roles of social support and spiritual coping between hope and depression in patients with advanced cancer. Interventions targeting hope, social support, and spiritual coping can effectively prevent the occurrence of depression.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Aldis H. Petriceks
Summary: The author argues that physicians do not need to have ready made answers about life, meaning, or spirituality, but should indeed provide comfort and support when their patients ask: What's it all about?
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Renzo Felipe Carranza Esteban, Josue Edison Turpo-Chaparro, Oscar Mamani-Benito, Jesus Hanco Torres, Fiorella Sarria Arenaza
Summary: The study found a positive correlation between religiosity and spirituality and life satisfaction among Peruvian citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spirituality variable explains 10.7% of the total variance of life satisfaction, indicating its significant predictive power.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Michail D. Kokkoris, Olga Stavrova
Summary: The meanings people attribute to food, such as social, moral, health, aesthetic, and sacred meanings, have a significant impact on their food consumption behavior. Different food meanings drive different consumption patterns, with social and moral meanings relating to health-conscious behaviors, moral meanings predicting discerning behaviors, aesthetic meanings driving indulgent behaviors, and sacred meanings influencing functional behaviors. Food meaning can serve as a useful framework for understanding and analyzing patterns of food consumption.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Gulnaz Ata, Dilek Kilic
Summary: The study examined the correlation between spiritual well-being, hope, and depression in oncology patients. The results showed a negative relationship between spiritual well-being and hopelessness and depression, and a positive relationship between depression and hopelessness. It is important for oncology patients to receive psychosocial care that addresses their spiritual well-being and hope, while also recognizing and treating depression symptoms effectively.
PERSPECTIVES IN PSYCHIATRIC CARE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
David J. Craig, Jasmine Fardouly, Ronald M. Rapee
Summary: This study investigated the mediating effects of self-esteem, social support, meaning in life, and positive religious coping in the relationship between religiosity, spirituality, and depression symptoms. The results indicated that self-esteem, meaning in life, and social support played significant roles as mediators in these relationships. Positive religious coping did not mediate the relationships, possibly due to the sample populations not being under stress.
JOURNAL OF RELIGION & HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
B. Edwin Burgess, Bria Leigh Gresham, Sylvie Mrug, Leigh Ann Bray, Kevin Jay Leon, Robert Bradley Troxler
Summary: Positive religious coping can buffer the impact of stress on patients' psychological distress, while negative religious coping may contribute to lower health-related quality of life.
JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Gloria Maria Almeida Souza Tedrus, Giovanna Chiavegatti de Castro Fagan Marti
Summary: This study investigated the relationships between religiousness/spirituality, self-esteem, and quality of life in adult people with epilepsy. The results showed that the group with temporal lobe epilepsy and hippocampal sclerosis had higher levels of religiousness/spirituality, higher overall self-ranking as a religious/spiritual person, and lower perception of religious/spiritual coping compared to the control group. Clinical variables and demographic data were also associated with different dimensions of religiousness/spirituality according to the type of epilepsy. Higher religiousness/spirituality was associated with better quality of life in the Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Hippocampal Sclerosis group, but not with self-esteem.
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Allen C. Sherman, Crystal L. Park, John M. Salsman, Mark L. Williams, Benjamin C. Amick, Teresa J. Hudson, Erick L. Messias, Stephanie Simonton-Atchley
Summary: This study aimed to explore the associations between religious/spiritual factors and mental health symptoms among community residents in a southern US state. The findings suggest that positive relationships with God are related to diminished mental health symptoms, while disappointment with God's distance is associated with more pronounced difficulties.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)