Changes in health status and frequency of attending religious services among medical inpatients with repeat admissions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21176271
AutoresGrace S Chung (0000-0002-1818-0148, University of Chicago, autor correspondente), Manuel J Diaz (0000-0003-3657-5837), Manuel J Castro (0000-0003-3164-7715, University of California, San Francisco), Vineet M Arora (0000-0002-4745-7599, University of Chicago), Vineet Arora, David O Meltzer (0000-0003-2790-7393, University of Chicago), Farr A Curlin (Duke University)
Ano2016
Volume28
Fascículo4
Páginas349-358
Data de publicação2016-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1552-8030 • E-ISSN: 1552-8049
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15528030.2016.1158139
PMID37994370
OpenAlexW2329922322
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas15

Although frequent attendance at religious services is associated with healthier behaviors and improved health outcomes, this relationship is confounded to the extent that attending religious services requires and displays a certain degree of health. This study surveyed patients over multiple hospitalizations at a large urban academic medical center to test the hypothesis that changes in health status would be accompanied by parallel changes in religious attendance but not with self-rated religiosity and spirituality. Study data confirmed the hypothesis, suggesting that cross-sectional associations between religious attendance and good health outcomes reflect, to some degree, the way changes in health status impact one's ability to attend religious services

Alternative medicine · Attendance · Church attendance · Family medicine · Religiosity · Spirituality · Clinical Psychology · Dietary Effects on Health · Medicine · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology · Gerontology