Religion and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine

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 hol...

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Published in:American journal of lifestyle medicine 2024-08, p.15598276241276770
Main Authors: Faries, Mark D, Corrêa Fernandes, Clara, Phillips, Edward, West, Tobias, Stout, Ron
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1559-8276
1559-8284
1559-8284
DOI:10.1177/15598276241276770