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| The relationship between religiosity and health behaviors in female caregivers of older adults with dementia | | Author(s) | Yaron G Rabinowitz, Brent T Mausbach, Philip J Atkinson |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 13, no 6, November 2009 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, November 2009 |
| Pages | pp 788-798 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Women as carers ; Health [elderly] ; Stress ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Religion ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The current study explored the relationship between three dimensions of religiosity in a sample of Latina and Caucasian female caregivers of older adult relatives with dementia: organisational religiosity (e.g. attendance at religious events), non-organisational religiosity (e.g. prayer), and subjective religiosity (e.g. importance of religion) and caregiver health behaviour patterns. It was hypothesised that religiosity would have a significant association with reduced cumulative health risk as determined by an index of health behaviours. It was also hypothesised that, when examining the individual health behaviours subsumed in the overarching index, religiosity would be positively associated with adaptive health behaviours like exercise and negatively associated with health risk behaviours like smoking. Amongst Caucasians, increased subjective religiosity was related to increased cumulative health risk. Conversely, in Latinas, non-organisational religiosity was positively correlated with improved dietary practices (reduced dietary restriction). Increased levels of subjective religiosity were significantly associated with decreased maintenance of a routine exercise regimen across ethnic groups. Recommendations for clinicians and religious leaders, and avenues of future research are discussed. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100210217 A |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SH: CC: QNH: EX: TR: 49: 7T |
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