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Patient Preference for Physician Discussion and Practice of Spirituality: Results from a Multicenter Patient Survey

Primary Author: Charles D. MacLean, University of Vermont, College of Medicine

Article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine, describing a survey of 456 patients in primary care clinics in three states. One third of patients wanted to be asked about their religious beliefs during a routine office visit, and two thirds felt physicians should be aware of their religious or spiritual beliefs.

Date Last Modified 01/01/2003 Article

Religion, Risk, and Medical Decision Making at the End of Life

Primary Author: Peter H. Van Ness, Yale University School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health

Article from the Journal of Aging and Health describing a study about whether religious patients are more or less willing to undergo the risks associated with potentially life-sustaining treatment. The authors concluded that "Not all dimensions of religiousness have the same association with willingness to undergo potentially life-sustaining treatment. Seriously ill older, religious patients are not especially predisposed to avoid risk and resist treatment".

Date Last Modified 08/01/2008 Article

Religion, Spirituality, and Depressive Symptoms in Patients with HIV/AIDS

Primary Author: Michael Yi, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati

Article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Describes a study that 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. The summary concluded that "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."

Date Last Modified 01/01/2000 Article

Religious Characteristics of U.S. Physicians: A National Survey

Primary Author: Farr A. Curlin, The University of Chicago

Article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, describing the results of a survey of 2,000 U.S. physicians about their religious characteristics. The authors concluded that "Physicians religious characteristics are diverse and differ in many ways from those of the general population."

Date Last Modified 02/01/2005 Article

Spirituality and Religion in Patients with HIV/AIDS

Primary Author: Sian Cotton, University of Cincinnati Medical Center

The purpose of this study was 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. We interviewed 450 patients from 4 clinical sites.

Most patients with HIV/AIDS belonged to an organized religion and use their religion to cope with their illness. Patients with greater optimism, greater self-esteem, greater life satisfaction, minorities, and patients who drink less alcohol tend to be both more spiritual and religious. Spirituality levels remain stable over 12 to 18 months.

This was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine

Date Last Modified 06/12/2008 Article