A Systematic Review of Research on Religion in Four Major Psychiatric Journals: 1991-1995

Weaver, Andrew J.; Samford, Judith A.; Larson, David B.; Lucas, Lea Ann; Koenig, Harold G.; Patrick, Vijayalakshmy

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“…336 CHATTERS empirical research, literature reviews, and special issues on these and related topics (16,39,100,103,106,121,124,130,132,175,180). Whereas religion and health were once considered marginal to serious scientific inquiry, they are currently enjoying an unprecedented level of research interest and prominence.…”

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Religion and Health: Public Health Research and Practice

Chatters

2000

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Key Words religious involvement, spiritualitys Abstract Research examining the relationships between religion and the health of individuals and populations has become increasingly visible in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Systematic programs of research investigate religious phenomena within the context of coherent theoretical and conceptual frameworks that describe the causes and consequences of religious involvement for health outcomes. Recent research has validated the multidimensional aspects of religious involvement and investigated how religious factors operate through various biobehavioral and psychosocial constructs to affect health status through proposed mechanisms that link religion and health. Methodological and analytical advances in the field permit the development of more complex models of religion's effects, in keeping with proposed theoretical explanations. Investigations of religion and health have ethical and practical implications that should be addressed by the lay public, health professionals, the research community, and the clergy. Future research directions point to promising new areas of investigation that could bridge the constructs of religion and health.

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Religion and Health: Public Health Research and Practice

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2000

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“…26 A later review of the same journals between 1991 and 1995 revealed an even lower percentage (1.2%). 27 Similarly, spiritual and religious variables were investigated in only 1.1% of studies in the field of internal medicine. 28 The reasons for this amnesia can be traced back to the separation between medicine and religion that occurred over the last few centuries after millennia of shared history.…”

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Religiosity associated with prolonged survival in liver transplant recipients

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We tested the hypothesis that religiosity (ie, seeking God's help, having faith in God, trusting in God, and trying to perceive God's will in the disease) is associated with improved survival in patients with end-stage liver disease who have undergone orthotopic liver transplantation. We studied a group of 179 candidates for liver transplantation who responded to a questionnaire on religiosity during the pretransplant psychological evaluation and underwent transplantation between 2004 and 2007. The demographic data, educational level, employment status, clinical data, and results of the questionnaire were compared with the survival of patients during follow-up, regardless of the cause of any deaths. Factorial analysis of responses to the questionnaire revealed 3 main factors: searching for God (active), waiting for God (passive), and fatalism. 2 ¼ 8.506, P ¼ 0.035) were independently associated with survival, even after adjustments for the waiting for God factor, fatalism, age, sex, marital status, employment, educational level, viral etiology, Child-Pugh score, serum creatinine level, time from the questionnaire to transplantation, donor age, and intraoperative bleeding. Patients who did not present the searching for God factor were younger than those who did, but they had shorter survival times (P ¼ 0.037) and a 3-fold increased relative risk of dying (HR ¼ 3.01, 95% CI ¼ 1. 07-8.45). In conclusion, religiosity is associated with prolonged survival in patients undergoing liver transplantation.

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“…Por exemplo, sabe-se que a avaliação de religiosidade apenas pela afiliação religiosa de um indivíduo é incompleta e pouco informativa, entretanto, esse foi o método mais empregado na última década (Weaver et al, 1998). A avaliação de religiosidade deve ser sempre multidimensional, o mesmo vale para a maioria das EA.…”

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Diretrizes metodológicas para investigar estados alterados de consciência e experiências anômalas

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2003

Rev. psiquiatr. clín.

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RESUMOAs experiências anômalas (EA) (vivências incomuns ou que se acredita diferentes do habitual e das explicações usualmente aceitas como realidade: alucinações, sinestesia e vivências interpretadas como telepáticas...) e os estados alterados de consciência (EAC) são descritos em todas as civilizações de todas as eras, constituindo-se elementos importantes na história das sociedades. Apesar disso, têm recebido pouca atenção da comunidade científica, ou são abordados de forma pouco rigorosa. As EA e os EAC podem ser estudados sem que se compartilhem as crenças envolvidas, sendo possível investigá-los enquanto experiências subjetivas e, como tais, correlacionados com quaisquer outros dados. Neste artigo, procurou-se apresentar algumas diretrizes metodológicas para um estudo rigoroso do tema, entre elas: evitar uma abordagem preconceituosa e a "patologização" do diferente, a necessidade de uma teoria e de uma revisão exaustiva da literatura existente, utilizar diversos critérios de normalidade e patologia, investigar populações clínicas e não clínicas, desenvolvimento de instrumentos adequados para avaliação, cuidados na escolha dos termos e no estabelecimento de nexos causais, distinguir entre a experiência vivenciada e suas interpretações, considerar o papel da cultura, avaliar a confiabilidade e a validade dos relatos, por fim, o desafio gerado pela necessidade de criatividade e diversidade na escolha dos métodos. Unitermos: Metodologia; Estado alterado de consciência; Espiritualidade; Experiência anômala. ABSTRACT Methodological guidelines to explore altered states of consciousness and anomalous experiencesAnomalous experiences (AE) (uncommon experiences or one that is believed to deviate from the usually accepted explanations of reality: hallucinations, synesthesia, experiences interpreted as telepathic...) and altered states of consciousness (ASC) are described in all societies of all ages. Even so, the scientists have long neglected the studies on this theme. To study AE and ASC is not necessary to share the believes we discuss, they can be investigated as subjective experiences and correlated like any other set of data. This article presents some methodological guidelines to explore these experiences, among them: to avoid prejudice approaches and to "pathologize" the unusual, the value of a theory and a comprehensive review of literature, using various concepts of pathology and normality, the investigation of clinical and non-clinical populations, development of new search instruments, to be careful to choose terms and to decide causal nexus, to distinguish experiences and interpretations, to take into account the role of culture, to evaluate the validity and reliability of reports, and the last, but not least, creativity and diversity in choosing methods.

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A Systematic Review of Research on Religion in Four Major Psychiatric Journals: 1991-1995

Cited by 52 publications

References 18 publications

Religion and Health: Public Health Research and Practice

Religion and Health: Public Health Research and Practice

Religiosity associated with prolonged survival in liver transplant recipients

Diretrizes metodológicas para investigar estados alterados de consciência e experiências anômalas

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