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Providing spiritual care to the terminally ill older adult: Complete Summary

Primary Author: National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)

Summary by the National Guideline Clearinghouse of the practice guideline produced by the University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center. The summary provides grades for the strength of the evidence used to produce the recommendations.

Date Last Modified 12/01/2006 Clinical practice guidelines

Religion, Health and Medicine in African Americans: Implications for Physicians

Primary Author: Jeff Levin, Duke University School of Medicine

An article published in the Journal of the National Medical Association, summarizing epidemiological studies of religion and health in African Americans.

Date Last Modified 02/01/2005 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

Spiritual Well-Being and Depression in Patients with Heart Failure

Primary Author: David B. Bekelman, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center

Article from the Journal of General Internal Medicine (volume 22) describing a study of sixty elderly patients with class II-IV heart failure. The authors sought to "identify the relationship between spiritual well-being and depression in patients with heart failure" and found that "greater spiritual well-being...was strongly associated with less depression."

Date Last Modified 02/06/2007 Article

Spiritual Well-Being, Depressive Symptoms, and Immune Status Among Women Living with HIV/AIDS

Primary Author: Safiya George Dalmida, Emory University Nell Hidgson Woodruff School of Nursing

Article from the journal, Women & Health, describing a study that "examined associations of spiritual well being, with depressive symptoms, and CD4 cell count and percentages among a non-random sample of 129 predominantly African-American HIV-positive women. The study found "a significant association between spirituality and immune status among women with HIV."

Date Last Modified 03/01/2009 Article