Religious practice in the pandemic of COVID-19 and the nursing diagnoses.

Purpose: Identify the elements (defining characteristics, related factors, and risk factors) of the diagnoses of NANDA international impaired religiosity (00169), risk for impaired religiosity (00170), and readiness for enhanced religiosity (00171), in a period of social distancing in the pandemic of COVID-19, and associate them with the behavior of individual and collective religious practice, before and during the pandemic.

Methods: Survey study, released via social media to members of religious communities in Brazil. Data collection took place in June 2020, by online questionnaire.