Affective Aspects of Religiousness and 6-Year Course of Depressive Symptoms in Aged Dutch Citizens.

In prospective studies on religiousness and depressive symptoms, it remains unclear whether religiousness is a predictor or parallels the fluctuating course of depressive symptoms. The current study focuses on several affective aspects of religiousness in their associations over time with late life depressive symptoms. As part of the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, a subsample of 222 respondents (mean age 76.

Varieties of Religious and Spiritual Struggles by Type of Mental Disorder: A Qualitative Approach.

Introduction: Little is known about types of religious/spiritual (R/S) struggles with regard to various diagnostic groups in mental health care. The current qualitative study aims to give an impression of R/S struggles as observed in six diagnostic groups in clinical mental health care.

Methods: Inductive thematic content analysis was applied to 34 semi-structured interviews.

Positive and negative religiousness and search for meaning: Impact on treatment of substance abuse after 6 months.

Background: Religiousness and meaning in life are protective factors against addiction. Understanding this relationship may help to improve treatment. The aim of the current study was to assess the associations of positive and negative religiousness and search for meaning with treatment outcome, for patients with substance disorder (SUD).

Treatment alliance and needs of care concerning religiousness and spirituality: A follow-up study among psychiatric inpatients.

Background: Patient satisfaction with religious/spiritual (R/S) care during mental health treatment has been associated with a better treatment alliance.

Aims: To investigate the longitudinal relations between (un)met R/S care needs and treatment alliance/compliance over a 6-month period.

Method: 201 patients in a Christian (CC) and a secular mental health clinic completed a questionnaire (T0) containing an R/S care needs questionnaire, the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI) and the Service Engagement Scale (SES).

Religious/spiritual care needs and treatment alliance among clinical mental health patients.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: The relationship between patient and professional is one of the cornerstones of successful treatment in mental health care. For part of the mental health patients, a similar outlook on life with their caregiver(s) is important. Attention to religion/spirituality (R/S) in mental health care is likely to influence the relationship between a patient and mental health professional, for patients preferring so.

Conversations and Beyond: Religious/Spiritual Care Needs Among Clinical Mental Health Patients in the Netherlands.

This study examines religious/spiritual (R/S) care needs and their possible determinants among mental health patients in the Netherlands. Patients in a Christian (CC, n = 100) and a secular (SC, n = 101) mental health clinic completed a questionnaire. Analysis revealed three factors on the R/S care needs measure: (1) "R/S conversations," (2) "R/S program and recovery," and (3) "R/S similar outlook on life.

Patients' Needs of Religion/Spirituality Integration in Two Mental Health Clinics in the Netherlands.

Introduction: In the last decades, the attention for religion/spirituality (R/S) in mental health care (MHC) has considerably increased. However, patients' preferences concerning R/S in treatment have not often been investigated. The aim of this study was to find out how patients in clinical multidisciplinary MHC want R/S to be addressed in their care.