Journal article
Symptoms of dementia progression in cognitive impairment: the role of religious and spiritual activity
Journal of spirituality in mental health, Vol.27(2), pp.309-328
04/03/2025
DOI: 10.1080/19349637.2024.2357311
PMCID: PMC12221268
PMID: 40613095
Abstract
This exploratory study explores the role of religious and spiritual (R/S) activity in cognitive impairment. We used data from respondents with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) from the Health and Retirement Study and Aging, Demographics, and Memory sub-study to investigate associations between religious service attendance and behavioral expressions, cognition, and sleep disturbances independently at two different time points using Spearman's Rho partial correlation. Religious service attendance was significantly associated with behavioral expressions, cognition, and sleep disturbances. Older adults with MCI who exhibited heightened levels of R/S activity engagement reported decreased behavioral expressions and better cognition at both time points.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Symptoms of dementia progression in cognitive impairment: the role of religious and spiritual activity
- Creators
- Katherine Carroll Britt - University of PennsylvaniaKathy C. Richards - The University of Texas at AustinJill Hamilton - Emory UniversityKavita Radhakrishnan - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of spirituality in mental health, Vol.27(2), pp.309-328
- DOI
- 10.1080/19349637.2024.2357311
- PMID
- 40613095
- PMCID
- PMC12221268
- NLM abbreviation
- J Spiritual Ment Health
- ISSN
- 1934-9637
- eISSN
- 1934-9645
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 20
- Grant note
- Jonas Philanthropies National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Nursing Research
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 05/29/2024
- Date published
- 04/03/2025
- Academic Unit
- Nursing; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984701834102771
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