Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Boston, MA – Participating in spiritual practices during childhood and adolescence may be a protective factor for a range of health and well-being outcomes in early adulthood, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Boston, MA—Spirituality should be incorporated into care for both serious illness and overall health, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
When the researchers matched deaths with reported religious attendance, they found that women who attended religious services more than once per week had a 33% lower risk of dying during the 16 years of follow-up compared with women who never attended religious services.
Spirituality should be incorporated into care for both serious illness and overall health, according to a study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Howard Koh explains why health, religion, and spirituality are all part of what it is to be human. More psychotherapists are incorporating religion into their practices. David Rosmarin believes that religion and spirituality have tools that can help with today's mental health crisis.
Our team from the Harvard Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion studies ways to bridge the public health disconnect between body and soul. As part of our commitment to research and practice, we worked in 2022 alongside several dozen colleagues nationwide to analyze the most rigorous studies published on the topic this century and to ...
Boston, MA – People who attended religious services at least once a week were significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including deaths related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning, according to new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Prior research highlights the importance of spirituality/religion (S/R) as it relates to several aspects of mental health and clinical interventions. This research has been expanded to include the concurrent examination of neurobiological correlates of S/R to elucidate potential biological mechanism ….
Summary: The presentation will consider associations between religious service attendance and subsequent depression, suicide, and anxiety using data from several large longitudinal cohort studies. Critical attention will be given to the question of whether the associations provide evidence for causal relationships.
Little is understood about the relationship between spirituality and religion as it intersects with mental health and illness. The project aims to explore the neurophysiological mechanisms that may serve as causal pathways mediating spirituality and religious experience.