Spirituality and sexual orientation: relationship to mental well‐being and functional health status

Coleman, Christopher Lance

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02743.x

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“…Our findings echo those from earlier studies that showed that greater levels of spirituality were associated with health outcomes such as fewer mental health problems, fewer reported HIV-related symptoms, and better overall HRQoL in people with HIV/AIDS. 13,14,21,22,39 Previous studies have found that people with HIV/AIDS often use religious coping (defined as how a person uses their spirituality/religion to manage a difficult situation) to find a sense of meaning/purpose in life, to Italics indicate independent variables significant in 4 or more of the models. Ã VA vs Non-VA. cope with issues of guilt and shame, and to deal with grief and bereavement associated with the disease.…”

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“…13,19,20 Furthermore, previous studies have been limited by small sample sizes, crosssectional design, single site recruitment, and a single-item or single-measure for religion/spirituality. 4,8,21 For example, a study by Coleman and Holzemer of 177 African American men and women with HIV assessed spiritual well-being, 22 but did not examine other important spiritual/religious indicators such as the use of religious coping or the level of intrinsic religiosity. Other studies have utilized relatively smaller, nongeographically diverse samples with sample sizes ranging from 10 to 275, 2,7,15 limiting the generalizability of findings to samples outside those specific geographic regions or demographic make-ups.…”

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Spirituality and religion in patients with HIV/AIDS

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BACKGROUND: Spirituality and religion are often central issues for patients dealing with chronic illness. The purpose of this study is to characterize spirituality/ religion in a large and diverse sample of patients with HIV/AIDS by using several measures of spirituality/religion, to examine associations between spirituality/religion and a number of demographic, clinical, and psychosocial variables, and to assess changes in levels of spirituality over 12 to 18 months.

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“…18,19,41 Spiritual well-being, or a sense of purpose/meaning and personal connectedness to a higher power or truth, may enhance physical and mental health through biological, psychological, and social mechanisms. 20 Greater spiritual well-being may facilitate more positive and ''healthy'' personal and social behaviors, may provide an overarching and unifying framework with which to deal with unexpected and difficult situations, and may give a greater sense of coherence between the individual and their environment, all of which may provide protection against depression or other psychological problems.…”

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Religion, spirituality, and depressive symptoms in patients with HIV/AIDS

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Wade

et al. 2006

J Gen Intern Med

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BACKGROUND: Depression has been linked to immune function and mortality in patients with chronic illnesses. Factors such as poorer spiritual well‐being has been linked to increased risk for depression and other mood disorders in patients with HIV. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine how specific dimensions of religion, spirituality, and other factors relate to depressive symptoms in a contemporary, multi‐center cohort of patients with HIV/AIDS. DESIGN: Patients were recruited from 4 medical centers in 3 cities in 2002 to 2003, and trained interviewers administered the questionnaires. The level of depressive symptoms was measured with the 10‐item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CESD‐10) Scale. Independent variables included socio‐demographics, clinical information, 8 dimensions of health status and concerns, symptoms, social support, risk attitudes, self‐esteem, spirituality, religious affiliation, religiosity, and religious coping. We examined the bivariate and multivariable associations of religiosity, spirituality, and depressive symptoms. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We collected data from 450 subjects. Their mean (SD) age was 43.8 (8.4) years; 387 (86.0%) were male; 204 (45.3%) were white; and their mean CD4 count was 420.5 (301.0). Two hundred forty‐one (53.6%) fit the criteria for significant depressive symptoms (CESD‐10 score ≥10). In multivariable analyses, having greater health worries, less comfort with how one contracted HIV, more HIV‐related symptoms, less social support, and lower spiritual well‐being was associated with significant depressive symptoms (P<.05). CONCLUSION: A majority of patients with HIV reported having significant depressive symptoms. Poorer health status and perceptions, less social support, and lower spiritual well‐being were related to significant depressive symptoms, while personal religiosity and having a religious affiliation was not associated when controlling for other factors. Helping to address the spiritual needs of patients in the medical or community setting may be one way to decrease depressive symptoms in patients with HIV/AIDS.

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“…In another study, individuals with spiritual practices have displayed lower rates of suicide and substance addiction [34]. Researches have commented that those mentioned positive effects should depend on their power to relieve patients' pain and anxiety, to comfort them physiolocially, psychologically and mentally and to enhance communication [4,[33][34][35][36][37][38]. Regarding the studies, spiritual care has been included in the Professional Nursing Practice Standards of Care Tanzania, Canada and the United States.…”

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“…are, the more open their spiritual care perceptions will be [35][36][37][38]40]. According to a study by Stang et al [41] in Switzeland, though the most of nurses (98%) consider spiritual care as necessary, only half of them (48%) provide spiritual care.…”

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Neurosurgery Nursing and Spiritual Dimension of Nursing Care

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Eren²,

Tuna³

et al. 2014

J Health Med Informat

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Nursing means trying to understand the man both in wellness and illness, from his/her birth to death, is to consider the human existence as a whole and is to know him/her with all aspects. Helping the patient to conserve, sustain and obtain all these described features make up the core elements of good nursing care. An individul is a whole of physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual dimensions and each of them is interrelated and interdependent to others. It is crucial for the patient to be treated not only for the remediation of the organ but also to be approached spiritually in holistic approach. This study aims to discuss the spiritual dimension for traumatic patients and to draw attention to the importance of serving holistic nursing care.

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Spirituality and sexual orientation: relationship to mental well‐being and functional health status

Cited by 43 publications

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Spirituality and religion in patients with HIV/AIDS

Spirituality and religion in patients with HIV/AIDS

Religion, spirituality, and depressive symptoms in patients with HIV/AIDS

Neurosurgery Nursing and Spiritual Dimension of Nursing Care

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