This paper provides a concise but comprehensive review of research on religion/spirituality
(R/S) and both mental health and physical health. It is based on a systematic review of …

Church-based health promotion (CBHP) interventions can reach broad populations and
have great potential for reducing health disparities. From a socioecological perspective …

There is increasing research evidence that religious involvement is associated both cross-
sectionally and prospectively with better physical health, better mental health, and longer …

A meta-analysis of data from 42 independent samples examining the association of a
measure of religious involvement and all-cause mortality is reported. Religious involvement …

We use recently released, nationally representative data from the National Health Interview
Survey—Multiple Cause of Death linked file to model the association of religious attendance …

Spirituality and religion have been seen as beneficial, harmful, and irrelevant to health. We
examine the recent research on this topic. We focus on (a) defining spirituality and religion …

Psychologists have tended to view religion from a distance as a global, undifferentiated,
stable process that is largely good or largely bad. This article presents a more fine-grained …

Background Although church attendance has been associated with a reduced risk of
mortality, no study has examined the impact of religious struggle with an illness on mortality …

Surveys suggest that most patients have a spiritual life and regard their spiritual health and
physical health as equally important. Furthermore, people may have greater spiritual needs …

Progress in studying the relationship between religion and health has been hampered by
the absence of an adequate measure of religiousness and spirituality. This article reports on …