Religious coping and quality of life among individuals living with schizophrenia.

Objective: This study investigated the relationship between positive and negative religious coping and quality of life among outpatients with schizophrenia.

Methods: Interviews were conducted with 63 adults in the southeastern United States. Religious coping was measured by the 14-item RCOPE and quality of life by the World Health Organization Quality of Life–BREF.

Religious, spiritual, and traditional beliefs and practices and the ethics of mental health research in less wealthy countries.

This discussion article contributes to ethics reform by introducing the contribution of religious, spiritual, and traditional beliefs and practices to both subject vulnerability and patient improvement. A growing body of evidence suggests that religious, spiritual, and traditional beliefs and practices may provide positive benefits, although in some cases mixed or negative consequences to mental and physical health. These beliefs and practices add a new level of complexity to ethical deliberations, in terms of what ignoring them may mean for both distributive justice and respect for persons.