Building Capacity Among Laity: A Faith-Based Health Ministry Initiative

Johnston, Josée; Konda, Kurt; Ablah, Elizabeth

doi:10.1007/s10943-017-0445-6

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“…It is also noteworthy that Israelis often live in neighborhoods with others in the same religious category. While faith-based interventions are understudied among Jewish groups, there is evidence of successful faith-based interventions among centrist Christians (Newlin et al, 2012, Johnston et al 2017. As a result, not only the extremely religious can benefit from faith-based interventions among Christians and we think the same would likely be true of Jews.…”

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confidence: 91%

The Inverse U-Shaped Religion–Health Connection Among Israeli Jews

2018

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A growing body of evidence indicates an association between religion and health. However, few have studied the connection between the extent of an individual's religiosity and his health. Analysis of the 2004 Israel National Health Survey was performed. Religiosity was self-identified using five continuous categories, distinctive to Israeli Jews. Bivariate and multivariate analyses examined the relationship between the extent of Religious commitment and several health outcomes. The relationship took the shape of an inverse U function: Israeli Jews in the middle religiously have the worst physical and mental health status on both unadjusted and adjusted bases. Israeli Jews exhibit a non-trivial connection between religiosity and health whereby the most Secular and the most Religious individuals seem to be healthier than individuals in between.

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Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 91%

The Inverse U-Shaped Religion–Health Connection Among Israeli Jews

2018

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“…While these findings shed light on the organizationallevel factors affecting implementation of Faith in Action, more targeted studies are needed to identify determinants that impact implementation and implementation strategies that target these determinants among a broader range of religious denominations for wider scale-up and dissemination. While churches are promising venues for health promotion programs [39][40][41][42], including PA interventions [8,11,[43][44][45], the lack of understanding of organizational context and determinants for implementation and sustainment limit dissemination capability for these programs. Few faith-based health promotion studies have been taken to scale and [46,47] most have targeted African-American populations [46,48,49], and only a few have targeted PA as a main outcome, with limited effectiveness [8,11].…”

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Identifying barriers, facilitators, and implementation strategies for a faith-based physical activity program

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Takemoto

Schneider

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Implement Sci Commun

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Background: Community engagement is critical to the acceleration of evidence-based interventions into community settings. Harnessing the knowledge and opinions of community leaders increases the likelihood of successful implementation, scale-up, and sustainment of evidence-based interventions. Faith in Action (Fe en Acción) is an evidence-based promotora-led physical activity program designed to increase moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among churchgoing Latina women. Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews using a semi-structured interview guide based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) at various Catholic and Protestant churches with large Latino membership in San Diego County, California to explore barriers and facilitators to implementation of Faith in Action and identify promising implementation strategies for program scale-up and dissemination. We interviewed 22 pastors and church staff and analyzed transcripts using an iterative-deductive team approach. Results: Pastors and church staff described barriers and facilitators to implementation within three domains of CFIR: characteristics of individuals (lack of self-efficacy for and knowledge of physical activity; influence on churchgoers' behaviors), inner setting (church culture and norms, alignment with mission and values, competing priorities, lack of resources), and outer setting (need for buy-in from senior leadership). From the interviews, we identified four promising implementation strategies for the scale-up of faith-based health promotion programs: (1) health behavior change training for pastors and staff, (2) tailored messaging, (3) developing community collaborations, and (4) gaining denominational support. Conclusions: While churches can serve as valuable partners in health promotion, specific barriers and facilitators to implementation must be recognized and understood. Addressing these barriers through targeted implementation strategies at the adopter and organizational level can facilitate improved program implementation and lead the way for scale-up and dissemination.

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“…Two common and contrasting structures of health programs are faith-based and faith-placed approaches ( DeHaven et al, 2004 ; Joseph et al, 2017 ; Baptiste-Roberts et al, 2021 ). Faith-based programs are health programs specifically designed with the faith communities’ values and beliefs in mind ( DeHaven et al, 2004 ; Stewart, 2016 ; Johnston et al, 2018 ). Many faith-based programs have been developed to address various health concerns, such as described by Schwingel and Gálvez (2016) who implemented a behavioral life-style change program in a Latino church community that was taught by promotoras , church lay health advisors, who added bible readings and teachings relevant to the program.…”

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Using Trauma Informed Principles in Health Communication: Improving Faith/Science/Clinical Collaboration to Address Addiction

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Problematic substance use is a pressing global health problem, and dissemination and implementation of accurate health information regarding prevention, treatment, and recovery are vital. In many nations, especially the US, many people are involved in religious groups or faith communities, and this offers a potential route to positively affect health through health information dissemination in communities that may have limited health resources. Health information related to addiction will be used as the backdrop issue for this discussion, but many health arenas could be substituted. This article evaluates the utility of commonly used health communication theories for communicating health information about addiction in religious settings and identifies their shortcomings. A lack of trusting, equally contributing, bidirectional collaboration among representatives of the clinical/scientific community and religious/faith communities in the development and dissemination of health information is identified as a potential impediment to effectiveness. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) tenets of trauma-informed practice, although developed for one-on-one use with those who have experienced trauma or adversity, are presented as a much more broadly applicable framework to improve communication between groups such as organizations or communities. As an example, we focus on health communication within, with, and through religious groups and particularly within churches.

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Building Capacity Among Laity: A Faith-Based Health Ministry Initiative

Cited by 8 publications

References 47 publications

The Inverse U-Shaped Religion–Health Connection Among Israeli Jews

The Inverse U-Shaped Religion–Health Connection Among Israeli Jews

Identifying barriers, facilitators, and implementation strategies for a faith-based physical activity program

Using Trauma Informed Principles in Health Communication: Improving Faith/Science/Clinical Collaboration to Address Addiction

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