The difficulties assessing spiritual distress in palliative care patients: a qualitative study.

Tags:

• ATTITUDE (Psychology)
• CONFIDENCE
• death attitudes
• England
• Focus Groups
• JUDGMENT sampling
• MEDICAL personnel
• MEDICAL personnel & patient
• PALLIATIVE treatment
• PERSONNEL management
• Pilot Projects
• Qualitative Research
• RURAL conditions
• Rural Health
• SOUND recordings
• spirituality
• STRESS (Psychology) -- Diagnosis
• THEMATIC analysis
• Time
• VOCABULARY

Religious fundamentalism and mental illness: A group analytic exploration.

Tags:

• attitudes
• Distress
• globalization
• group analytic exploration
• Group Psychotherapy
• Mental Disorders
• mental distress
• mental health
• MENTAL illness
• psychoanalytic thinking
• religion
• Religious attitudes
• RELIGIOUS fundamentalism
• social cohesion

Notes:

• The present study investigated the acute effects of the ritual of reciting the Rosary on the level of anxiety. Methods: We studied 30 students in a Catholic college divided into two intervention groups. Results: A significant reduction in anxiety was observed in subjects reciting the Rosary compared to the group of subjects watching the video. Ritual itself may be a significant contributor to the effects of religious practices on psychologic well-being.

Subjective well-being and religiosity in Egyptian college students

Tags:

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Egypt
• Female
• Humans
• ISLAM
• Male
• Personal Satisfaction
• Personality Inventory
• Psychometrics
• Quality of Life
• Religion and Psychology
• spirituality
• Students
• Young Adult

Religiosity, subjective well-being, self-esteem, and anxiety among Kuwaiti Muslim adolescents.

Tags:

• Analysis of Variance
• Anxiety
• Computer Software
• CORRELATION (Statistics)
• DATA analysis
• factor analysis
• Happiness
• Health Status Indicators
• high school students
• ISLAM
• mental health
• RESEARCH methodology evaluation
• SAMPLING (Statistics)
• SELF-esteem -- Testing
• SELF-evaluation
• SELF-perception
• T-test (Statistics)

Religiosity, subjective well-being, and neuroticism

Religiosity, subjective well-being, and depression in Saudi children and adolescents.

Tags:

• CHILD mental health
• DEPRESSION, Mental
• Religiousness
• SAUDI Arabia
• WOMEN

Religiosity and its association with subjective well-being and depression among Kuwaiti and Palestinian Muslim children and adolescents.

Tags:

• Analysis of Variance
• DATA analysis
• DEPRESSION, Mental
• Happiness
• Health Status Indicators
• ISLAM
• Israel
• Kuwait
• mental health
• POPULATION geography
• SAMPLING (Statistics)
• SEX distribution (Demography)
• STATISTICS
• Well-Being

Religiosity and death anxiety: no association in Kuwait

Tags:

• Adult
• Anxiety
• Attitude to Death
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Culture
• Ethnic Groups
• Female
• Humans
• ISLAM
• Kuwait
• Male
• Personality Inventory
• Psychometrics
• religion
• Religion and Psychology
• Students
• United States

A significant association between religiosity and happiness in a sample of Kuwaiti students

Religiousness and prostate cancer screening in African American men

Tags:

• Adult
• African Americans
• Aged
• Biopsy
• Digital Rectal Examination
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Humans
• Intention
• Los Angeles
• Male
• Mass Screening
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasm Staging
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care
• Problem Solving
• Prostate
• Prostate-Specific Antigen
• Prostatic Neoplasms
• Self Efficacy
• Ultrasonography

Islamic religious leaders' knowledge and attitudes towards AIDS and their perception of people living with HIV/AIDS: a qualitative study F. A. Abu-Moghli et al. Islamic religious leaders' knowledge and attitudes towards AIDS.

Tags:

• AIDS (Disease)
• AIDS (Disease) -- Prevention
• ATTITUDE (Psychology)
• CONTENT analysis (Communication)
• empirical research
• Focus Groups
• HEALTH literacy
• INTERVIEWING
• ISLAM
• JORDAN
• LEADERS
• PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
• Qualitative Research
• religion
• RESEARCH -- Methodology
• SOUND recordings
• SPIRITUAL care (Medical care)

Notes:

•  This study explored   twenty Islamic religious leaders' (males and females) perception, knowledge and attitudes towards AIDS, AIDS prevention and attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).  Results showed that Muslim religious leaders do not perceive AIDS as a major health problem in Jordan, and that following the Islamic values lowers the risky behaviours. The religious leaders reflected varied responses to PLWHA but they agreed that they have responsibilities towards the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and that sex education contributes to healthy behaviours, and consequently to the prevention of HIV transmission.

  
  

Examining Coping Methods With Stressful Interpersonal Events Experienced by Muslims Living in the United States Following the 9/11 Attacks

Tags:

• desecration
• MUSLIMS
• religious coping theory
• sacred loss
• September 11 attacks

Ethnic identification, religious identity, and psychological well-being among Muslim and Christian Palestinians in Israel.

Tags:

• Christians
• ETHNICITY -- Psychological aspects
• IDENTIFICATION (Religion)
• Israel
• MUSLIMS
• PALESTINIAN Arabs -- Israel
• SELF-perception -- Religious aspects
• WELL-being -- Psychological aspects

Language, mysticism, and hypnotizability: a brief communication

Tags:

• Adult
• Female
• Humans
• Language
• Male
• Mysticism
• Suggestion

Notes:

• People attempting to communicate religious and mystical experiences tend to use the same language strategies employed in inducing hypnotic trance. Both incorporate vague language that provides receptive listeners the opportunity to insert their own content. This study examines whether people who have had mystical or religious experiences are also more likely to respond to the language of hypnosis. Eighty-one participants completed the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A and the Hood Mysticism Scale. Participants were divided into 3 equal groups based on “high,” “ambiguous,” and “low” mysticism scale scores. The high group scored significantly higher on hypnotizability compared to the low group. The relationship between openness to mystical and religious experience and susceptibility to hypnotic suggestion warrants further investigation.

Using a Mindfulness-Based Procedure in the Community: Translating Research to Practice.

Tags:

• AGGRESSIVENESS
• Meditation
• PEOPLE with disabilities -- Psychology
• PEOPLE with disabilities -- Research
• PEOPLE with mental disabilities
• SELF-perception

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Women with Breast Cancer

Notes:

• Results from a qualitative prospective cohort study challenge previous stereotypes by indicating that CAM usage does not increase dramatically with the initial diagnosis of cancer and that younger women are more likely to use CAM than older women.

Comparing brief stress management courses in a community sample: mindfulness skills and progressive muscle relaxation

Tags:

• Adult
• Aged
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Meditation
• Middle Aged
• Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
• Muscle Relaxation
• Personal Satisfaction
• Pilot Projects
• Psychotherapy, Group
• Relaxation Therapy
• Self Care
• Stress, Psychological
• Treatment Outcome
• Young Adult

Notes:

• This study sought to compare a five-week mindfulness meditation (MM) course to a five-week course that taught progressive muscle relaxation (PMR). Forty-three adults from the community were randomly assigned to either MM (n = 19) or PMR (n = 24) courses after responding to flyers and other advertisements for a free stress management course. Mindfulness meditation participants practiced meditation significantly more often than PMR participants practiced relaxation during the intervention period (F[1, 43] = 7.42; P < .05). Interestingly, the two conditions did not differ significantly in their posttreatment levels of relaxation or mindfulness. Although there were no differences between groups on any of the primary outcome measures, across both treatment conditions there were statistically significant reductions from pretreatment to posttreatment in general psychological distress. Thus, although MM did not emerge as clearly superior to PMR, results of this study suggest that a brief mindfulness skills course may be effective for stress management.

Spiritual crisis: a concept analysis

Tags:

• Adult
• Aged, 80 and over
• Female
• Holistic Health
• Holistic Nursing
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Religion and Psychology
• spirituality

Religion and spirituality in coping with advanced breast cancer: perspectives from Malaysian Muslim women

Notes:

• This article is part of a larger study on the role of spirituality in coping with breast cancer among Malaysian Muslim women. The study seeks to reveal the meaning of the experience through the stories of three Muslim women surviving advanced breast cancer, to better understand the deep meanings that inform their experiences with spirituality and transformation as they cope with the challenges of breast cancer. Data were gathered using in-depth interview. Qualitative methods were used in identifying two themes--illness as an awakening and hope and freedom comes from surrendering to God. The themes were discussed in the context of two broad areas: (1) what are the new meanings these women discovered in their experiences with cancer; and (2) how did the new meanings change their lives? The study suggests that cancer survivors' experiences with cancer and their learning processes must be understood within the appropriate cultural context. This is especially so for spirituality. The common emphasis of spirituality on relationship with God, self and others, may significantly influence how people learn to live with cancer.

Family, public and private religiousness and psychological well-being over time in at-risk adolescents.

Tags:

• Alcoholism
• AT-risk people
• Blacks
• CHI-square test
• DISTRESS (Psychology)
• factor analysis
• FAMILIES
• Family Relations
• INTERVIEWING
• LONGITUDINAL method
• MULTIPLE regression analysis
• Psychological Tests
• religion
• RESEARCH -- Methodology
• SAMPLING (Statistics)
• social support
• STRESS (Psychology)
• Well-Being
• Whites

Spirituality and Well-Being: The Relationship Between Religious Coping and Recovery From Sexual Assault

Contradiction in the Contemporary Study of Faith Matters: Negation and Affirmation via a Historical Perspective

Divine love and deep connections: a long-term followup of patients surviving cardiac surgery

Notes:

• The authors examined experiencing divine love as an indicator of affective spiritual growth in a prospective cohort of 200 patients surviving cardiac surgery. These patients previously completed two-wave preoperative interviews when standardized cardiac surgery data were also collected. The information included left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association Classification, baseline health (physical and mental), optimism, hope, religiousness, prayer coping, religious/spiritual coping, and demographics. The authors then measured divine love at 900 days postoperatively. Hierarchical linear regression indicated the direct effect of positive religious coping on experiences of divine love, controlling for other key variables. Postoperatively perceived spiritual support was entered at the final step as an explanatory factor, which appeared to mediate the coping effect. None of the other faith factors predicted divine love. Further research regarding divine love and spiritual support may eventually guide clinical attempts to support patients' spiritual growth as an independently relevant outcome of cardiac surgery.

Spiritual struggle related to plasma interleukin-6 prior to cardiac surgery.

Tags:

• cardiac diseases & cardiac surgery
• Coping Behavior
• coping with stress
• Heart Disorders
• Heart Surgery
• immune-inflammatory marker interleukin-6
• Interleukins
• religion
• spiritual struggle
• spirituality
• Stress

Notes:

• Spiritual struggle appeared consistently to predict poor health outcomes, including mortality. Despite surging interest in the health benefits of religion and spirituality, the health hassle of existential conflicts and proinflammatory cytokines as a potential physiological mechanism has been overlooked. Based on psychological and theological assumptions, we argue for the universal nature of spiritual struggle, a crisis-related existential conflict, and for investigating its physiological influence as essential to understanding human nature. Increased levels of inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) have been linked with adverse health outcomes and negative emotions. This study thus examined spiritual struggle related to plasma IL-6 in 235 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery, along with positive religious coping, general coping, and optimism, controlling for standardized clinical medical indicators. Multiple regression analysis, following a preplanned sequence, showed that spiritual struggle (p = .011), behavioral coping (p = .013) were positively associated with excess plasma IL-6, controlling for medical correlates (e.g., left ventricular ejection fraction). We conclude that spiritual struggle, indicating the crisis in an existential relation, and behavioral coping strategies are associated with elevated pre-operative plasma IL-6. The interdisciplinary implications are discussed.

Private prayer and quality of life in cardiac patients: Pathways of cognitive coping and social support.

Tags:

• cardiac patients
• Coping
• Coping Behavior
• Heart Surgery
• prayer
• private prayer
• Quality of Life
• short term quality of life

Notes:

• Despite the growing evidence linking faith with health and well-being, national leaders noted the need to explore the mechanism underlying these linkages. The goal of this prospective study was to investigate the psychosocial mechanisms involved in the preoperative use of private prayer for coping and the effects of such act on short-term quality of life (SPQOL) in 294 patients following open-heart surgery. Using established instruments, three interviews were conducted with middle-aged and older patients (average age 62) at two weeks and two days preoperatively, then 36 days postoperatively. The endpoints were assessed with levels of distress (e.g., depression and anxiety) and fatigue symptoms. Structural equation modeling was used to test a theoretical model. The final model showed the indirect influence of using prayer for coping on SPQOL through the mediation of cognitive coping and perceived social support. However, this mediation was not observed for behavioral, anger, and avoidant coping. Psychosocial factors may explain the potential role of using prayer for coping on short-term postoperative quality of life.

Pathways to postoperative hostility in cardiac patients: mediation of coping, spiritual struggle and interleukin-6

Notes:

• Using structural equation modeling, we estimated major pathways from preoperative distress, indicated by anxiety and other factors, to postoperative hostility in cardiac patients. Sequential interviews were conducted before and after surgery. Standardized medical and surgical indices were selected from a national database. Results showed that preoperative spiritual struggle mediated indirect effects of anxiety and anger coping on Interleukin-6 (IL-6) immediately before surgery. The link between spiritual struggle and IL-6 further mediated the indirect effects of anxiety and anger coping on postoperative hostility. Anger coping mediated the harmful influence of anxiety and counteracted the protection of positive religious coping on adjustment.

Prayer and reverence in naturalistic, aesthetic, and socio-moral contexts predicted fewer complications following coronary artery bypass.

Tags:

• CORONARY artery bypass
• DISEASES -- Religious aspects
• HEART -- Blood-vessels
• PATIENTS
• SURGERY -- Complications

Notes:

• This prospective study explores prayer, reverence, and other aspects of faith in postoperative complications and hospital length of stay of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Alongside traditional religiousness measures, we examined sense of reverence in religious and secular contexts. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 177 patients 2 weeks before surgery at a medical center. Medical variables were retrieved from the national Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ Database. Logistic and multiple regression models were performed to predict outcomes. Prayer frequencies were associated with reduced complications but not hospitalization. Sense of reverence in secular contexts predicted fewer complications and shorter hospitalization. Controlling for complications reduced the initial influence of reverence on hospitalization, suggesting the potential mediation of complications. No interaction between demographics and faith factors was evident. The role of faith in medicine is complex and context-dependent. Future studies are needed on mediating factors

Long-term Adjustment After Surviving Open Heart Surgery: The Effect of Using Prayer for Coping Replicated in a Prospective Design

Notes:

• A study examines multifaceted effects of religious factors on long-term postoperative adjustment, extending author's previous findings concerning prayer and coping with cardiac disease.

Private prayer and optimism in middle-aged and older patients awaiting cardiac surgery

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Affect
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Analysis of Variance
• Cardiac Surgical Procedures
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Regression Analysis
• Religion and Psychology
• Socioeconomic Factors
• spirituality

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  Purpose: This study investigated the use of private prayer among middle-aged and older patients as a way of coping with cardiac surgery and prayer’s relationship to optimism. Results: Private prayer predicted optimism, along with older age, better socioeconomic resources, and healthier affect. Neither measures of general religiosity nor any type of prayers used by patients were associated with optimism.

   

The role of private prayer in psychological recovery among midlife and aged patients following cardiac surgery

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Age Factors
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Aging
• Analysis of Variance
• Convalescence
• CORONARY artery bypass
• depression
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Logistic Models
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Questionnaires
• Religion and Psychology
• Stress, Psychological

Notes:

• This study addressed multifactorial determinants of postoperative psychological recovery and the effects of private prayer, a form of spiritual coping, on the recovery of 151 older patients. Results show that most patients pray about their postoperative problems and that private prayer appears to significantly decrease depression and general distress one year post-CABG.

Spiritual and religious involvement relate to end-of-life decision-making in patients undergoing coronary bypass graft surgery

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Advance Care Planning
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Attitude to Death
• Attitude to Health
• Comorbidity
• CORONARY artery bypass
• Coronary Disease
• Decision Making
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Prospective Studies
• Quality of Life
• religion
• Religion and Psychology
• Risk Factors
• spirituality

Notes:

• This prospective study investigated the effect of religious and spiritual factors on whether decisions regarding end-of-life had been made in a sample of middle-aged and older patients undergoing CABG. In particular, we expected faith factors of an intrinsic nature would promote this decision.

Aging and Religious Participation: Reconsidering the Effects of Health

Notes:

• This study examined the relationship between aging and religious participation, focusing on changes in older people’s formal participation in church life, informal or private religious practices, and attitudes towards participation in the church. Contrary to earlier studies which relied on subjective health as the sole indicator of health status, multiple regression analyses showed that health, especially as measured by health-related, functional limitations, serves an important mediating role. Older people experience greater functional limitations and, in turn, are less likely to engage in various church activities.

Is the New Age phenomenon connected to delusion-like experiences? Analysis of survey data from Australia

The Subtle Energies of Spirit: Explorations in Metaphysical and New Age Spirituality

Notes:

• This is a very interesting article about the history of spirituality, or spirit, as a term and a practice. The author explores H. Emilie Cady's Lessons in Truth throughout the article to discuss her points.

Content and Spiritual Items of Quality-of-Life Instruments Appropriate for Use in Palliative Care: A Review

Tags:

• end of life
• instruments
• Palliative Care
• Quality of Life
• spirituality

"If God wanted me yesterday, I wouldn't be here today": religious and spiritual themes in patients' experiences of advanced cancer

Notes:

• This study sought to inductively derive core themes of religion and/or spirituality (R/S) active in patients' experiences of advanced cancer to inform the development of spiritual care interventions in the terminally ill cancer setting. The authors concluded that R/S plays a variety of important and inter-related roles for most advanced cancer patients. Future research is needed to determine how spiritual care can incorporate these five themes and address R/S concerns.

Coping with thoughts of suicide: techniques used by consumers of mental health services

Perception among medical students in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, regarding alcohol and substance abuse in the community: a cross-sectional survey

Tags:

• Islam

Mental health help-seeking among Arab university students in Israel, differentiated by religion.

Tags:

• AGE distribution (Demography)
• Analysis of Variance
• ATTITUDE (Psychology)
• Christianity
• COLLEGE students
• COMPARATIVE studies
• CROSS-sectional method
• DATA analysis
• HELP-seeking behavior
• ISLAM
• Israel
• LONGITUDINAL method
• MEDICAL care -- Utilization
• mental health
• Multivariate Analysis
• religion
• SAMPLING (Statistics)
• SCALE analysis (Psychology)
• STATISTICS
• STIGMA (Social psychology)
• UNIVERSITIES & colleges

Evidence-based cognitive hypnotherapy for depression.

Tags:

• ANTIDEPRESSANTS
• COMBINED modality therapy
• DEPRESSION in children -- Prevention
• DEPRESSION, Mental -- Treatment
• HYPNOTISM -- Therapeutic use
• MENTAL illness -- Treatment -- Research
• Psychotherapy

Evidence-based hypnotherapy for depression.

Tags:

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• cognitive hypnotherapy
• cognitive-behavior therapy
• depression
• Evidence Based Practice
• evidence-based hypnotherapy
• Hypnotherapy
• Major Depression
• psychopathology
• Psychotherapy

Effectiveness of skill-based substance abuse intervention among male adolescents in an Islamic country: case of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Tags:

• Adolescent
• Adolescent Behavior
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Humans
• Iran
• ISLAM
• Longitudinal Studies
• Male
• Primary Prevention
• Smoking
• Substance-Related Disorders

Religion and culture: potential undercurrents influencing hand hygiene promotion in health care

Tags:

• Attitude of Health Personnel
• Cross Infection
• Culture
• Guideline Adherence
• Guidelines as Topic
• Handwashing
• Humans
• Infection Control
• religion

Religiosity, coping, and psychological well-being among Latter-Day Saint Polynesians in the U.S.

Tags:

• Coping
• Coping Behavior
• Distress
• Latter-Day Saint Polynesians
• MORMONS
• Pacific Islanders
• Psychological well-being
• religiosity
• well being

Participants' experiences of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: "It changed me in just about every way possible"

Tags:

• Cognitive Therapy
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Depressive Disorder, Major
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
• Female
• Humans
• Interpersonal Relations
• Learning
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Primary Health Care
• Program Development
• Recurrence
• Rural Population
• Self Efficacy
• Semantics
• Severity of Illness Index
• Treatment Outcome
• Urban Population

Religiousness/spirituality and mental health among older male inmates

Tags:

• Alabama
• Anxiety
• Humans
• Interviews as Topic
• mental health
• Middle Aged
• prisoners
• Religion and Psychology
• spirituality

Notes:

• We examined the relation of religiousness/spirituality; demographic characteristics such as age, race, and type of crime; and physical and mental health among 73 older male inmates in the state of Alabama. Nearly 70% of the inmates were incarcerated for murder or sexual crimes. There were no racial/ethnic differences in reported religiousness/spirituality, demographic characteristics, or mental health. We found an association between self-reported years of incarceration and experienced forgiveness.

Adaptive regression and intense religious experiences

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Ego
• Humans
• Male
• Regression (Psychology)
• Religion and Psychology
• Rorschach Test
• Thinking

The development of the Short Muslim Practice and Belief Scale

Religion and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) among young Muslim women in Saudi Arabia.

Tags:

• GROUNDED theory
• HELP-seeking behavior
• INTERVIEWING
• ISLAM
• MEDICAL personnel & patient
• OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder
• RESEARCH -- Methodology
• SAUDI Arabia
• SELF-perception
• THEMATIC analysis
• WOMEN

Addiction treatment intervention: an uncontrolled prospective pilot study of spiritual self-schema therapy with latina women

Effect of yoga-nidra on blood glucose level in diabetic patients

Tags:

• Adult
• Aged
• Blood Glucose
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Female
• Humans
• Hypoglycemic Agents
• Male
• Middle Aged
• yoga

A preliminary study of the acute effects of religious ritual on anxiety

Tags:

• Adult
• Anxiety
• Catholicism
• Ceremonial Behavior
• Female
• Health Behavior
• Humans
• Internal-External Control
• Male
• spirituality
• Students
• Treatment Outcome

Notes:

• A comparative investigation of the affects of reciting the Rosary versus receiving doctrinal instructions or watching religious education films. Ritual practice demonstrated significant reduction in anxiety over other forms of religious involvement.

Religious traditions and prenatal genetic counseling

Tags:

• Genetic Counseling
• Humans
• Prenatal Diagnosis
• religion
• United States

Value of religious care for relief of psycho-existential suffering in Japanese terminally ill cancer patients: the perspective of bereaved family members

Efficacy of short-term life-review interviews on the spiritual well-being of terminally ill cancer patients

Notes:

• The primary aim of the study was to examine the efficacy of a one-week Short-Term Life Review for the enhancement of spiritual well-being, using a randomized controlled trial. The secondary aim was to assess the effect of this therapy on anxiety and depression, suffering, and elements of a good death.

Effects of Bereavement Life Review on Spiritual Well-Being and Depression

Tags:

• Bereavement
• Cancer patients
• life review
• Psychotherapy
• spiritual well-being

The efficacy of mindfulness-based meditation therapy on anxiety, depression, and spirituality in Japanese patients with cancer

The Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Meditation Therapy on Anxiety, Depression, and Spirituality in Japanese Patients with Cancer

Tags:

• prepub

Notes:

• The primary goal of the study was to assess the efficacy of mindfulness-based meditation therapy on anxiety, depression, and spiritual well-being of Japanese patients undergoing anticancer treatment. Conclusions: Mindfulness-based meditation therapy may be effective for anxiety and depression in Japanese cancer patients, and spiritual well-being is related to anxiety and depression, growth, and pain.

Prayer and healing: A medical and scientific perspective on randomized controlled trials

Notes:

• This article provides a critical analysis of three types of prayer studies on scientific (methodological) and philosophical grounds and concludes that any future research into the effectiveness of prayer in healing will inevitably run up against these problems.

Spiritual well-being in individuals with fibromyalgia syndrome: relationships with symptom pattern variability, uncertainty, and psychosocial adaptation

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Attitude to Health
• Female
• Fibromyalgia
• Humans
• Internet
• Male
• mental health
• Models, Psychological
• Nursing Methodology Research
• Quality of Life
• Questionnaires
• Regression Analysis
• Religion and Psychology
• Self Care
• Severity of Illness Index
• spirituality
• Stress, Psychological
• Uncertainty

Spiritual well-being in individuals with fibromyalgia syndrome: relationships with symptom pattern variability, uncertainty, and psychosocial adaptation

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Attitude to Health
• Female
• Fibromyalgia
• Humans
• Internet
• Male
• mental health
• Models, Psychological
• Nursing Methodology Research
• Quality of Life
• Questionnaires
• Regression Analysis
• Religion and Psychology
• Self Care
• Severity of Illness Index
• spirituality
• Stress, Psychological
• Uncertainty

Notes:

• This study examined relationships among symptom pattern variability, uncertainty, spiritual well-being, and psychosocial adaptation in individuals with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS). A survey design was used with 58 individuals with FMS. The Fibromyalgia Symptom Pattern Questionnaire, Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale--Community Form, Spiritual Well-Being Scale, and Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale-Self Report were used to collect data. Positive relationships were found between symptom pattern variability and uncertainty and between uncertainty and poor psychosocial adaptation; spiritual well-being moderated the relationship between uncertainty and psychosocial adaptation. A positive sense of well-being aided adaptation to symptoms and uncertainties of FMS. Spiritual well-being had a greater effect on the relationship between symptom pattern variability and uncertainty than expected.

The disconnected values (intervention) model for promoting healthy habits in religious institutions

Tags:

• Attitude to Health
• Exercise
• Habits
• Health Behavior
• Health promotion
• Health Status
• Humans
• Religion and Psychology
• social support
• Social Values

Faith and child survival: the role of religion in childhood immunization in Nigeria

Tags:

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Child
• Child Mortality
• Child Welfare
• Child, Preschool
• DEMOGRAPHY
• Female
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Health Surveys
• Humans
• Immunization
• Infant
• Logistic Models
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Mothers
• Nigeria
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care
• religion
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Young Adult

Notes:

• This study assessed the role of mother's religious affiliation in child immunization status of surviving children 12 months of age and older in Nigeria, using data from the 2003 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). The results indicate that religion plays a role in the risk of non-immunization; religion was not associated with the risk of partial immunization; however, religion was significantly associated with the reduced risk of full immunization.

Neurotheology: What Can We Expect from a (Future) Catholic Version?

Notes:

• In this short article I argue that neurotheology should be conceived and practiced within a theological framework. Taking the case of Catholic theology as an example, five proposals are provided that offer a glimpse and, in my estimation, a realistic account of a (future) Catholic neurotheology. I identify two possible modes of how to practice Catholic neurotheology and conclude that any Catholic neurotheology that attempts to be practiced in accordance with these five proposals will be extremely challenging for Catholic theology.

Laboratory stressors in clinically anxious and non-anxious individuals: The moderating role of mindfulness

Tags:

• Anxiety
• anxiety sensitivity
• emotion regulation
• hyperventilation
• Mindfulness
• Relaxation

Spirituality, sense of coherence, and coping responses in women receiving treatment for alcohol and drug addiction

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Age Factors
• Alcoholism
• Attitude to Health
• Female
• Follow-Up Studies
• Humans
• Logistic Models
• Massachusetts
• Patient Compliance
• Patient Dropouts
• Poverty
• Probability
• Registries
• Retrospective Studies
• Risk Factors
• Sick Role
• social support
• spirituality
• Stress, Psychological
• Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Treatment Outcome
• Urban Population

Notes:

• Purpose: To examine the role of spirituality, sense of coherence, and coping responses in relation to stress and trauma symptoms among women in substance abuse treatment. PRINCIPAL Findings: Stress was significantly associated with drug addiction severity and trauma symptoms were significantly related to alcohol addiction severity. Spirituality, sense of coherence, and coping responses did not mediate the relationship between perceived stress, and posttraumatic stress, and alcohol and drug addiction severity.

Multimodal analgesia for chronic pain: rationale and future directions

Notes:

• Chronic pain is a multifaceted disease requiring multimodal treatment. Clinicians routinely employ various combinations of pharmacologic, interventional, cognitive-behavioral, rehabilitative, and other nonmedical therapies despite the paucity of robust evidence in support of such an approach. Therapies are selected consistent with the biopsychosocial model of chronic pain, reflecting the subjective nature of the pain complaint, and the myriad stressors that shape it. Elucidating mechanisms that govern normal sensation in the periphery has provided insights into the biochemical, molecular, and neuroanatomic correlates of chronic pain, an understanding of which is leading increasingly to mechanism-specific multidrug therapies. Peripheral and central neuroplastic reorganization underlying the disease of chronic pain is influenced by patient-specific emotions, cognition, and memories, further impairing function and idiosyncratically defining the illness of chronic pain. Clinical perceptions of these and related subjective elements associated with the suffering of chronic pain drive psychosocial treatments, including, among other options, relaxation therapies, coping skills development, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. Treatment selection is thus guided by comprehensive assessment of the phenomenology and inferred pathophysiology of the pain syndrome; patient goals, preferences, and expectations; behavioral, cognitive, and physical function; and level of risk. Experiential, practice-based evidence may be necessary for improving patient care, but it is insufficient; certainly, well-designed studies are needed to support therapeutic decision making. This review will discuss the biochemical basis of pain, factors that govern its severity and chronicity, and foundational elements for current and emerging multimodal treatment strategies.

Systematic review of the efficacy of meditation techniques as treatments for medical illness

Tags:

• Chronic Disease
• Holistic Health
• Humans
• Meditation
• Mental Healing
• Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
• Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
• Research Design

Notes:

• Meditative techniques are sought frequently by patients coping with medical and psychological problems. Because of their increasingly widespread appeal and use, and the potential for use as medical therapies, a concise and thorough review of the current state of scientific knowledge of these practices as medical interventions was conducted. Purpose: To systematically review the evidence supporting efficacy and safety of meditative practices in treating illnesses, and examine areas warranting further study. Studies on normal healthy populations are not included. Methods: Searches were performed using PubMed, PsycInfo, and the Cochrane Database. Keywords were Meditation, Meditative Prayer, Yoga, Relaxation Response. Qualifying studies were reviewed and independently rated based on quality by two reviewers. Mid-to-high-quality studies (those scoring above 0.65 or 65% on a validated research quality scale) were included. Results: From a total of 82 identified studies, 20 randomized controlled trials met our criteria. The studies included 958 subjects total (397 experimentally treated, 561 controls). No serious adverse events were reported in any of the included or excluded clinical trials. Serious adverse events are reported in the medical literature, though rare. The strongest evidence for efficacy was found for epilepsy, symptoms of the premenstrual syndrome and menopausal symptoms. Benefit was also demonstrated for mood and anxiety disorders, autoimmune illness, and emotional disturbance in neoplastic disease. Conclusions: The results support the safety and potential efficacy of meditative practices for treating certain illnesses, particularly in nonpsychotic mood and anxiety disorders. Clear and reproducible evidence supporting efficacy from large, methodologically sound studies is lacking.

Patient attitudes concerning the inclusion of spirituality into addiction treatment

Tags:

• Adult
• Attitude
• Connecticut
• Female
• Focus Groups
• Harm Reduction
• HIV Infections
• Humans
• Male
• Patient Compliance
• Questionnaires
• Religion and Medicine
• spirituality
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Urban Population

Notes:

• The purpose of this exploratory study was 3-fold: (a) to determine how ‘spirituality’ is defined by inner-city HIV-positive drug users; (b) to determine perceived relationships between spirituality and abstinence, harm reduction, and health promotion; and (c) to assess interest in a spirituality-based intervention.

Why revelations have occurred on mountains? Linking mystical experiences and cognitive neuroscience

The relationship between religiosity and subjective well-being: A case of Kuwaiti car accident victims.

Tags:

• car accident victims
• Emotional Trauma
• Health
• Motor Traffic Accidents
• religion
• religiosity
• subjective well being
• Trauma
• Victimization
• well being

Religiosity and its relation to quality of life in Christian Orthodox cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy

Tags:

• Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols
• Christianity
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasms
• Quality of Life
• Questionnaires
• religion

Notes:

• The first objective of the current observational study was to assess the levels of religiosity in Greek Christian Orthodox cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The second objective was to evaluate the associations between religiosity and quality of life (QoL), an endpoint of considerable importance in clinical cancer research and practice.

Next steps for clinicians in religious and spiritual therapy: an endpiece

Tags:

• Clergy
• Cooperative Behavior
• Humans
• Psychotherapy
• Religion and Psychology
• spirituality

Psychotherapy with rural religious fundamentalist clients

Do prevailing societal models influence reports of near-death experiences?: a comparison of accounts reported before and after 1975

Tags:

• Adult
• Cultural Characteristics
• Death
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Models, Psychological
• Narration
• Reproducibility of Results
• Research Design
• Retrospective Studies
• Terminology as Topic

Notes:

• Transcendental near-death experiences show some cross-cultural variation that suggests they may be influenced by societal beliefs. The prevailing Western model of near-death experiences was defined by Moody’s description of the phenomenon in 1975. To explore the influence of this cultural model, we compared near-death experience accounts collected before and after 1975. We compared the frequency of 15 phenomenological features Moody defined as characteristic of near-death experiences in 24 accounts collected before 1975 and in 24 more recent accounts matched on relevant demographic and situational variables. Near-death experience accounts collected after 1975 differed from those collected earlier only in increased frequency of tunnel phenomena, which other research has suggested may not be integral to the experience, and not in any of the remaining 14 features defined by Moody as characteristic of near-death experiences. These data challenge the hypothesis that near-death experience accounts are substantially influenced by prevailing cultural models.

Religiosity and participation in mutual-aid support groups for addiction

Tags:

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Alcoholism
• Behavior, Addictive
• Female
• Health Care Surveys
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Recurrence
• Self-Help Groups
• spirituality
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Temperance
• Treatment Outcome

Notes:

• A national survey of mutual-aid support groups for addiction was conducted to identify key differences between participants in recovery groups. Survey data indicate that active involvement in support groups significantly improves one’s chances of remaining clean and sober, regardless of the group in which one participates. Respondents whose individual beliefs better matched those of their primary support groups showed greater levels of group participation.

The Self-Perception and Relationships Tool (S-PRT): a novel approach to the measurement of subjective health-related quality of life

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adult
• Aged
• Attitude to Health
• Female
• Focus Groups
• Holistic Health
• Humans
• Life Change Events
• Male
• mental health
• Middle Aged
• Psychometrics
• Quality of Life
• Religion and Psychology
• Self Concept
• Semantics
• Sickness Impact Profile
• spirituality

Notes:

• The Self-Perception and Relationships Tool (S-PRT) is intended to be a clinically responsive assessment of patients’ subjective Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL). Methods: Patient samples included individuals involved with renal, cardiology, psychiatric, cancer, chronic pelvic pain, and sleep services. In Phase I, five patient focus groups generated 128 perceptual rating scales. In Phase II, a refined item pool (88 items) was administered along with measures of health status (SF-36) and spiritual beliefs (Spiritual Involvements and Beliefs Scale--SIBS) to 160 patients. Results: Factor analysis of S-PRT results produced a surprisingly clean five-factor solution (Eigen values> 2.0 explaining 73.5% of the pooled variance). Conclusion: Evidence supports the validity of the S-PRT as a generally applicable measure of perceived health status and HRQL.

Religiosity and quality of life in breast cancer patients

Neural correlates of religious experience

Tags:

• Adult
• Brain
• Brain Mapping
• Female
• Frontal Lobe
• Humans
• Male
• Parietal Lobe
• religion
• Tomography, Emission-Computed

Notes:

• The commonsense view of religious experience is that it is a preconceptual, immediate affective event. Work in philosophy and psychology, however, suggest that religious experience is an attributional cognitive phenomenon. Here the neural correlates of a religious experience are investigated using functional neuroimaging. During religious recitation, self-identified religious subjects activated a frontal-parietal circuit, composed of the dorsolateral prefrontal, dorsomedial frontal and medial parietal cortex. Prior studies indicate that these areas play a profound role in sustaining reflexive evaluation of thought. Thus, religious experience may be a cognitive process which, nonetheless, feels immediate.

Fear of Death, Mortality Communication, and Psychological Distress Among Secular and Religiously Observant Family Caregivers of Terminal Cancer Patients.

Tags:

• Analysis of Variance
• CANCER -- Patients -- Psychological aspects
• CAREGIVERS -- Psychological aspects
• CHI-square test
• death attitudes
• INTERVIEWS
• Israel
• PATH analysis (Statistics)
• PATIENT-family relations
• PROBABILITIES
• Retrospective Studies
• spirituality
• STRESS (Psychology)

The benefits of yoga for rheumatoid arthritis: results of a preliminary, structured 8-week program

Chronic pain and fatigue: Associations with religion and spirituality

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Canada
• Chronic Disease
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic
• Female
• Health Surveys
• Humans
• Linear Models
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Pain
• religion
• Young Adult

Notes:

• The Canadian Community Health Survey (2002) obtained data from 37,000 individuals 15 years of age or older. From these data, four conditions with chronic pain and fatigue were analyzed together -- fibromyalgia, back pain, migraine headaches and chronic fatigue syndrome. Additional data from the survey were used to determine how religion and spirituality affect psychological well-being, as well as the use of various coping methods.

Clinical implications of research on religion, spirituality, and mental health

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Curriculum
• Humans
• Internship and Residency
• Mental Disorders
• mental health
• Psychiatry
• Religion and Psychology
• Religious Philosophies
• Research
• Social Values
• spirituality

The association between spiritual and religious involvement and depressive symptoms in a Canadian population

Tags:

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Canada
• Depressive Disorder
• Female
• Health Status
• Health Surveys
• Humans
• Life Style
• Logistic Models
• Male
• Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
• Questionnaires
• Religion and Psychology
• Self Concept
• Severity of Illness Index
• social support
• spirituality

Notes:

• Data from a large epidemiologic survey were examined to determine the relationship of religious practice (worship service attendance), spiritual and religious self-perception, and importance (salience) to depressive symptoms. More frequent worship service attendees had significantly fewer depressive symptoms. In contrast, those who stated spiritual values or faith were important or perceived themselves to be spiritual/religious had higher levels of depressive symptoms.

Parenting style, religiosity, peers, and adolescent heavy drinking

The Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES): Validation of the Short Form in an Elderly French Population

Studies of the Inner Life: The Impact of Spirituality on Quality of Life

Notes:

• This article defines spirituality and relates the importance of spirituality to understanding quality of life. Spirituality is examined through organizational religious activities, non-organizational activities and/or as an expression of faith. Spirituality as a variable in the study of quality of life is not a new concept; however, it has returned to the scene during recent years, and has gone through an evolutionary process.

I am happy in my faith: the influence of religious affiliation, saliency, and practice on depressive symptoms and treatment preference.

Tags:

• AGNOSTICS
• ATHEISTS
• Christians
• DEPRESSED persons
• DEPRESSION, Mental
• FAITH (Christianity)
• MEDICINE -- Religious aspects
• mental health
• MUSLIMS
• Religiousness

"It depends": viewpoints of patients, physicians, and nurses on patient-practitioner prayer in the setting of advanced cancer

Notes:

• Although prayer potentially serves as an important practice in offering religious/spiritual support, its role in the clinical setting remains disputed. Few data exist to guide the role of patient-practitioner prayer in the setting of advanced illness. The aim of the study was to inform the role of prayer in the setting of life-threatening illness, this study used mixed quantitative-qualitative methods to describe the viewpoints expressed by patients with advanced cancer, oncology nurses, and oncology physicians concerning the appropriateness of clinician prayer.

Provision of spiritual care to patients with advanced cancer: associations with medical care and quality of life near death

Notes:

• To determine whether spiritual care from the medical team impacts medical care received and quality of life (QoL) at the end of life (EoL) and to examine these relationships according to patient religious coping.

Support of Cancer Patients' Spiritual Needs and Associations with Medical Care Costs at the End of Life (419-C)

Notes:

• Determine the relationship of spiritual care to end of life costs.

Teaching on spiritual care: The perceived impact on qualified nurses

Tags:

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Education
• Impact
• Post-graduate learners
• Spiritual care
• Spiritual coping
• spirituality
• Teaching

Influence of intestinal stoma on spiritual quality of life of U.S. veterans

Tags:

• Age Distribution
• Aged
• Attitude to Health
• Chi-Square Distribution
• Cross-Sectional Studies
• Enterostomy
• Holistic Health
• Humans
• Interpersonal Relations
• Male
• Men's Health
• Middle Aged
• Quality of Life
• Questionnaires
• Severity of Illness Index
• social support
• spirituality
• United States
• Veterans

Notes:

• Purpose: To examine spiritual quality of life (QOL) of veterans with intestinal ostomies. Design: Mixed-method cross-sectional. Conclusions: Spiritual QOL is influenced by an intestinal stoma. Qualitative comments lend insight into the meaning of spirituality items.

Effect of Iyengar yoga practice on fatigue and diurnal salivary cortisol concentration in breast cancer survivors

Notes:

• This study examines the effect of regular lyengar yoga practice on measures of self-perceived psychosocial function and diurnal salivary cortisol secretion in stage II-IV breast cancer survivors.

Efficacy of Hypnosis in the Treatment of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) in Women: Rural and Urban Samples

Qualitative systemic review of randomized controlled trials on complementary and alternative medicine treatments in fibromyalgia

Tags:

• prepub

Notes:

• This study investigates the effects of alternative therapies on fibromyalgia. Mindfulness meditation was found to have generally beneficial results, while acupuncture had mixed results that tended positive. No effects were found for Qi Gong, biofeedback, or body awareness therapy.

Religious Attendance and Subjective Well-Being among Older Americans: Evidence from the General Social Survey

Notes:

• A growing body of research addresses religion and well-being among older adults. In investigating these significant aspects of older adults’ lives, many studies find that religious attendance is positively associated with psychological well-being. Net of controls, we find among other results that religious attendance is positively associated with two measures of subjective well-being among adults age 65 and older.

Acute effects of transcendental meditation on hemodynamic functioning in middle-aged adults

Tags:

• Adult
• Blood Pressure
• Female
• Heart Rate
• Hemodynamics
• Hypertension
• Life Style
• Male
• Meditation
• Middle Aged
• Questionnaires
• Vascular Resistance

Notes:

• Some studies have demonstrated that Transcendental Meditation (TM) reduces high blood pressure, but the hemodynamic adjustments behind these blood pressure reductions have not been elucidated. The aim of this study was to provide a preliminary investigation of the acute effects of TM on TPR. Conclusions: TPR decreased significantly during TM.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a treatment for chronic depression: A preliminary study

Notes:

• This pilot study investigated the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), a treatment combining mindfulness meditation and interventions taken from cognitive therapy, in patients suffering from chronic-recurrent depression. Self-reported symptoms of depression decreased from severe to mild levels in the MBCT group while there was no significant change in the TAU group.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a treatment for chronic depression: A preliminary study

Exploring the natural foundations of religion

Tags:

• Concepts
• Culture
• Memory
• religion
• Ritual
• Transmission

Notes:

• A new cognitive approach to religion is bringing fresh insights to our understanding of how religious concepts are maintained, acquired and used to motivate and direct actions. This approach suggests that seemingly extraordinary thoughts and behaviours can be supported by quite ordinary cognition and may thus be termed [`]natural’. Simultaneously, this research is expanding the domain of concepts and causal reasoning in general. This review examines recent research into religious rituals, communication and transmission of religious knowledge, the development of god-concepts in children, and the origins and character of religious concepts in adults. Together, these studies consistently emphasize and support the notion that the cultural phenomena typically labeled as [`]religion’ may be understood as the product of aggregated ordinary cognition. The new cognitive science of religion should eventually provide a fuller account of the distinctive and apparently extraordinary properties of religion.

God and genes in the caring professions: clinician and clergy perceptions of religion and genetics

Tags:

• Adult
• Clergy
• Female
• Genetics, Medical
• Humans
• Male
• Questionnaires
• religion

Spirituality, well-being, and quality of life in people with rheumatoid arthritis

Tags:

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Arthritis, Rheumatoid
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Quality of Life
• Questionnaires
• Sickness Impact Profile
• spirituality

Theistic Existential Psychotherapy

Tags:

• existential therapy
• existentialism
• Psychotherapy
• spirituality
• theistic

A 17-year longitudinal study of religion and mental health in a Mormon sample.

Notes:

• Assesses data collected between 1984-2001 on the mental health of religious Mormons. Examines the relationship between devoutness and psychopathology and the stability of specific beliefs and practices.

Cognitive Process: A Buddhist explanation of information process and its congruent reactions

Notes:

• Applies Buddhist philosophy to cognitive processes; positions BUddha as a cognitive psychologist meditation The author presents a Buddhist understanding of the cognitive process of incoming information, its circulation and its congruent reactions based on the Buddhist spiritual meditative tradition of South and Southeast Asia. He asserts that Buddha can be credited as the first cognitive psychologist who propounded one of the most comprehensive analytic systems of cognitive process with an ultimate aim of achieving an altered psychological state of positive change and equilibrium reaction. Abstract from a paper given at the Epilepsy, Brain and Mind conference in March 2010, in Prague, Czech Republic.

Perceived Environmental Church Support Is Associated with Dietary Practices among African-American Adults

Spirituality and support for family presence during invasive procedures and resuscitations in adults

Psychosocial factors, quality of life, and psychological distress: ethnic differences in patients with heart failure

Notes:

• Advances in treatment have prolonged life in heart failure (HF) patients, leading to increased attention to quality of life (QOL) and psychological functioning. It is not clear if ethnic differences exist in factors associated with psychological well-being. We examined psychosocial factors associated with depression and anxiety in 97 HF patients. Medical records were reviewed and patients (M age 53, 50% African American) completed surveys examining social support, coping, spirituality, and QOL for their association with depression and anxiety. Multiple regressions suggested that psychosocial factors were associated with psychological health. Patients with lower social support, lower meaning/peace and more negative coping reported greater depression; positive coping, and lower meaning/peace were associated with higher anxiety. Ethnicity stratified models suggested that spiritual well-being was associated with depression only among African Americans and QOL partially mediated this relationship. Findings suggest the importance of considering the unique psychosocial needs of diverse populations to appropriately target clinical interventions.

Effects of mindful yoga on sleep in pregnant women: a pilot study

Notes:

• This study explores the effects of yoga practice on sleep patterns among women in their second and third trimesters of pregnancy.  "Mindful yoga shows promise for women in their second trimester of pregnancy to diminish total number of awakenings at night and improve sleep efficiency and merits further exploration. Results from this pilot study provide the data to estimate sample size and design and implement powered and more controlled studies in the future."

The effects of mindfulness-based yoga during pregnancy on maternal psychological and physical distress

Tags:

• Adult
• Anxiety
• Female
• Humans
• Hydrocortisone
• Pain
• Patient Satisfaction
• Pilot Projects
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Complications
• Pregnancy Trimester, Second
• Pregnancy Trimester, Third
• Prenatal Care
• Saliva
• Stress, Psychological
• Treatment Outcome
• yoga

Religious coping and hospital admissions among adults with sickle cell disease