| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Religious activities, strength from faith, and social functioning among African American and white nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Kenneth J Branco |
| Journal title | Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging, vol 19, no 4, 2007 |
| Publisher | Binghamton, NY, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 3-20 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Faith ; Self care capacity ; White people ; Black people ; Residents [care homes] ; Nursing homes ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effects are explored of having a preference for religious activities in the nursing home, and of drawing strength from faith on social functioning in a random sample of 1595 White and 172 African American residents from 270 nursing homes across the US. Nurses assessed residents using the Minimum Data Set (MDS). Using ordinary least squares regression (OLS), the authors found that activities of daily living (ADLs), cognitive and vision impairments, depression, and no contact with family or friends were negatively related to social functioning, while being female, preferring religious activities, and drawing strength from faith were positively related to social functioning. Among African Americans, ADLs, cognitive impairment and depression were negatively related to social functioning, while religious activity preference and strength from faith were positively related to social functioning. Among Whites, faith moderated the negative effects of having no contact with family of friends; and religious activity preference exacerbated the negative effects of cognitive impairment on social functioning. Among African Americans, faith moderated the negative effects of depression. These findings suggest that Durkheim's hypothesis of religion's influence on social solidarity is supported in the nursing home setting. The positive effects of religious activities and strength from faith operated primarily through a distress-deterrent model, but there was also some support for moderating effects. The findings' theoretical, research design and nursing home practice implications are discussed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071127208 A |
| Classmark | EX: EX5: CA: TKA: TKE: KX: LHB: 49: 7T |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|