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Religion and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine

Year: 2024

Type: review

Abstract: Decades of research now support the positive relationship of religion/spirituality (R/S) with physical health, mental health, morbidity, and mortality. While lifestyle medicine (LM) practitioners often recognize R/S as important, they can face common challenges of how to integrate R/S into their holistic, patient-centered care. To help, this article presents a faith-practice framework, as a starting point for considering incorporating R/S into LM practice-in light of common concerns and challenges, as a guide for patient-centered care through adjusting lifestyle prescriptions to accommodate individualized R/S beliefs and practices for improved health behavior and outcomes, and as an encouragement to stimulate openness for positive, thoughtful discussion into the future of R/S in LM practice and research.

Source: American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

DOI: 10.1177/15598276241276770

Authors: Mark D. Faries, Clara Corrêa Fernandes, Edward Phillips, Tobias West, Ron Stout

Institutions: Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, Harvard University, VA Boston Healthcare System

Language: English

Topic: Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology

Subfield: Health

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4401989269