Religious Involvement, Health Status, and Mortality Risk

2011 ◽  
pp. 533-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence D. Hill ◽  
Amy M. Burdette ◽  
Ellen L. Idler
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Religious Involvement

scholarly journals Distinguishing between spiritual health and religious involvement as determinants of adolescent health in Canada and the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Jirásek ◽  
Petr Badura ◽  
Nathan King ◽  
William Pickett ◽  
Valerie Michaelson
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Adolescent Health ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
General Health Status ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
School Aged Children

Abstract Spiritual health is a topic of emergent interest; however, lack of a clear distinction between spiritual health and religious involvement makes it difficult to understand the potential role of spiritual health as a determinant of health. Analyses of such relationships that cross countries and cultures are rare. We therefore assessed whether differences exist between spiritual health and religious involvement and their respective associations with general indicators adolescent health. The study was based on the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in Canada (n = 10 761) and the Czech Republic (n = 4411). In both countries, we failed to identify strong or statistically significant associations between self-reported religiosity and adolescent health. In contrast, adolescents with higher spiritual health scores consistently reported enhanced levels of general health status. Study findings point to the importance of a strong sense of spiritual health as a protective determinant of adolescent health, and raise questions about religious involvement as protective to adolescent health outcomes.

Living arrangements and marital status: a register-based study of survival of older adults in Belgium at the beginning of the 21st century

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 2141-2162 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE HERM ◽  
JON ANSON ◽  
MICHEL POULAIN
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
And Gender

ABSTRACTBeing married reduces the mortality risk of older persons. More generally, living arrangements that include co-residence with a source of support and a close care-giver are associated with a lower mortality risk. We build a detailed typology of private and collective living arrangements, including marital status, and check its association with mortality risks, controlling for health status. Using administrative data from the population register, we identify the living arrangement of all individuals aged 65 years and over living in Belgium as at 1 January 2002, and their survival during the year 2002. Data on health status are extracted from the 2001 census. We use binary logistic regression with the probability to die as outcome and living arrangement, health, age and gender as covariates. Our results show that mortality is more closely associated with actual living arrangements than with marital status. This association is age and gender-specific and remains even at very old ages. Living with a spouse is confirmed to be beneficial for survival but in older age living alone becomes more favourable. Of all living arrangements, older persons living in religious communities experience the lowest mortality risk whereas those living in nursing homes experience the highest risk.

scholarly journals Impact of Body Mass Index and Metabolic Health Status on All‐Cause Mortality Risk among Older Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feon W. Cheng ◽  
Xiang Gao ◽  
Diane C. Mitchell ◽  
Craig Wood ◽  
Christopher Still ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Metabolic Health ◽  
All Cause Mortality

14. Religious Involvement and Mortality Risk among Pre-Retirement Aged U.S. Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hummer ◽  
Maureen R. Benjamins ◽  
Christopher G. Ellison ◽  
Richard G. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Religious Involvement

Mortality Risk by Functional Status and Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
KALEB MICHAUD ◽  
MONTSERRAT VERA-LLONCH ◽  
GERRY OSTER
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Prospective Longitudinal ◽  
The Relationship

Objective.Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are at increased risk of death. Modern RA therapy has been shown to improve health status, but the relationship of such improvements to mortality risk is unknown. We assessed the relationship between health status and all-cause mortality in patients with RA, using the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) and the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 questionnaire (SF-36) physical and mental component summary scores (PCS, MCS).Methods.Subjects (n = 10,319) were selected from the National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases, a prospective longitudinal observational US study with semiannual assessments of HAQ, PCS, and MCS. Risk of death up to 7 years through 2006 was obtained from the US National Death Index. Relationship of HAQ, PCS, and MCS to mortality was assessed using Cox regression models; prediction accuracy was compared using Harrell’s concordance coefficient (C).Results.Over 64,888 patient-years of followup, there were 1317 deaths. Poorer baseline health status was associated with greater mortality risk. Adjusting for age, sex, and baseline PCS and MCS, declines in PCS and HAQ were associated with higher risk of death. HAQ improvement was associated with reduced mortality risk from 6 months through 3 years; a similar relationship was not observed for PCS or MCS improvement. Controlling for baseline values, change in PCS or HAQ did not improve prediction accuracy.Conclusion.The HAQ and the SF-36 PCS are similarly and strongly associated with mortality risk in patients with RA. Change in these measures over time does not appear to add to predictive accuracy over baseline levels.

Depressive Symptoms and Mortality Risk in a National Sample: Confounding Effects of Health Status

2004 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 823-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Everson-Rose ◽  
James S. House ◽  
Richard P. Mero
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Mortality Risk ◽  
National Sample

scholarly journals Religiousness, well-being and ageing – selected explanations of positive relationships

2015 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Woźniak
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Special Focus

Abstract According to research that have been conducted in the field of gerontology, sociology and psychology of ageing, there is a relationship between the level of religious involvement and health status/ well-being/quality of life in older age. How does religiousness influence aging process and health status? The aim of the article is to review explanations of a positive relationship between religiousness and health that are discussed in the literature. Those explanations may be grouped in three broad categories reflecting three functions of religion that play a role for well-being in older age. Those functions are: (1) religiousness as a source of coherence and the role of religious coping and provision of meaning in dealing with stressful life events (including ageing losses) (2) religiousness as a source of positive self-perception and a sense of personal control, (3) provision of social resources (i.e. social ties and social support) within religious community and emphasis on interpersonal relations (with special focus on forgiveness as a norm in interpersonal relations). Those functions of religion are discussed in the context of their potential role in successful ageing, as determined by - among others - active engagement in life.

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