Interest in the relationship between spirituality, religion, and clinical care has increased in the last 15 years, but clinicians need more concrete guidance about this topic. as dissimilarity between religion and spirituality. This study sought to better understand the relationship between religion/spirituality and physical health and mental health in 122 patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Behav Sci (Basel). © 2020 MJH Life Sciences™ and Psychiatric Times. Of 93 observational studies, two-thirds found lower rates of depressive disorder with fewer depressive symptoms in persons who were more religious. A study analyzed the relationship between spirituality, religiosity, and personality. Spirituality and health: towards a framework for exploring the relationship between spirituality and health. 1999;7:19-29. 43. In addition, religion promotes a positive worldview, answers some of the why questions, promotes meaning, can discourage maladaptive coping, and promotes other-directedness. This inevitably presents difficulties when comparing the findings of studies. 38. J Am Geriatr Soc. Forgiveness, negative religious coping, daily spiritual experiences, religious support, and self-rankings of religious/spiritual intensity significantly predicted mental health status. Background. The relationship between spirituality and medicine has been the focus of considerable interest in recent years. However, spirituality is an elusive concept that defies clear definition. Connor KM, Davidson JR, Lee LC. Private religious practice (e.g. 1998;37:49-61. Umucu E, Reyes A, Carrola P, Mangadu T, Lee B, Brooks JM, Fortuna KL, Villegas D, Chiu CY, Valencia C. Qual Life Res. 2004 Apr;52(4):554-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52161.x. In: Strachey J, trans-ed. In a systematic review that examined 68 studies, researchers looked for a relationship between religion and suicide.8 Among these, 57 studies reported fewer suicides or more negative attitudes toward suicide among the more religious.  |  Health, on the other hand, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is a “state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”3. New York: Plenum Press; 1980. Propst LR, et al. 22. At first glance, religion and spirituality might sound the same. Randomized trials indicate that religious interventions among religious patients enhance recovery from anxiety and depression.47,48 Psychoeducational groups that focus on spirituality can lead to greater understanding of problems, feelings, and spiritual aspects of life.49. 2020 Jun 23;17(12):4522. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17124522. 2005 Sep 6;3:53. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-53. How then can clinicians enter into their patients’ spiritual lives? 25. 37. Swiss Med Wkly. HHS 2020 Sep 24:1-8. doi: 10.1007/s11136-020-02642-y. Research has shown that religion and spirituality can help people cope with the effects of everyday stress. Recently, however, religion as a coping strategy and factor in recovery has been the subject of growing interest.34 Religious delusions have been associated with poorer outcomes, poorer adherence to treatment, and a more severe course of illness.35. Bosworth HB, Park KS, McQuoid DR, et al. Psychiatry has a long tradition of dismissing and attacking religious experience. Vulnerability of Jews to affective disorders. 2003;129:614-636. Comparative efficacy of religious and nonreligious cognitive-behavioral therapy for the treatment of clinical depression in religious individuals. 2004;24:379-397. A growing body of evidence has found that spirituality enhances health. Shreve-Neiger A, Edelstein BA. Religion’s influence on patient care is expressed in prayer requests, in clinician-chaplain collaborations, and through health care organizations’ religious accommodations for patients and staff. Religion and remission of depression in medical inpatients with heart failure/pulmonary disease.J Nerv Ment Dis. Approaches to religiosity related to anxiety among college students. Spirituality and serious mental illness: a two-part study. Differences between Religion and Spirituality. A 2001 publication identified over 1200 studies that had examined the relationship between some aspect of religious belief or behaviour and some indicator of health.1 It concluded that most studies had found a positive association between religion and physical and mental health. 1980;48:635-639. Siddle R, Haddock G, Tarrier N, Faragher EB. More specifically, they saw that when the approach to religion occurs in search of answers to existential questionsbut the feeling of faith and spiritual meaning were low, religion had mor… Although those with higher religious attendance had lower depressive symptoms, those who … Progrès Médical. In a review of 134 studies that examined the relationships between religious involvement and substance abuse, 90% found less substance abuse among the more religious.8 These findings are corroborated by more recent national surveys and studies in alcohol and drug use in African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans that similarly indicate negative associations between religious involvement and substance abuse.38-41, The negative effects of religious involvement. The prevalence of religious coping among persons with persistent mental illness. pain patients feel less desire to reduce pain in the world and feel more abandoned by God). Religion has often been seen by mental health professionals in Western societies as irrational, outdated, and dependency forming and has been viewed to result in emotional instability.3, In 1980, Albert Ellis,4 the founder of rational emotive therapy, wrote in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology that there was an irrefutable causal relationship between religion and emotional and mental illness. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. The relationship between being religious and mental health was found to be complex. 29. Background. The relationship between spirituality and health has been the focus of considerable interest in November 2001. http://www.casacolumbia.org/templates/publications_reports.aspx. 39. This created a divide between religion and mental health care, which has continued until recently. A pragmatic approach to teaching psychiatry residents the assessment and treatment of religious patients. 2020 Apr 22;13:783-794. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S236157. Kehoe N. 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