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Religion, spirituality and the well-being of informal caregivers
 — a review, critique, and research prospectus
Author(s)R S Hebert, E Weinstein, L M Martire
Journal titleAging & Mental Health, vol 10, no 5, September 2006
Pagespp 497-520
Sourcehttp://www.tandfonline.com
KeywordsReligion ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Informal care ; Well being ; Literature reviews.
AnnotationResearch on religion and/or spirituality and caregiver well-being is a burgeoning area of investigation. In a systematic search of bibliographic databases, article references, and contacts with experts in the field, the articles retrieved were reviewed for measurement, theoretical and design limitations, yielding 83 studies (57% published in the last 5 years). Evidence for the effects of religion/spirituality were unclear: 71 of the studies found no or a mixed association between religion/spirituality and well-being. These ambiguous results are a reflection of the multidimensionality of religion/spirituality and the diversity of well-being outcomes examined. They also partly reflect the frequent use of unrefined measures of religion/spirituality and of theoretical approaches to studying this topic. Investigators have a fairly large number of studies on religion/spirituality and caregiver well-being on which to build. Future studies should be theory driven and use psychometrically sound measures of religion/spirituality. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-070112208 A
ClassmarkTR: EX: P6: D:F:5HH: 64A

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