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Spirituality, Religious Attendance and Health Complaints in Czech Adolescents

Research in some religious countries shows that religiosity and spirituality positively affect adolescent health. We studied whether religiosity and spirituality also have positive associations with adolescent health in a secular country. We tested the associations between religious attendance and s...

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Autores principales: Zidkova, Radka, Glogar, Petr, Polackova Solcova, Iva, P. van Dijk, Jitse, Kalman, Michal, Tavel, Peter, Malinakova, Klara
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32235661
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072339
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author Zidkova, Radka
Glogar, Petr
Polackova Solcova, Iva
P. van Dijk, Jitse
Kalman, Michal
Tavel, Peter
Malinakova, Klara
author_facet Zidkova, Radka
Glogar, Petr
Polackova Solcova, Iva
P. van Dijk, Jitse
Kalman, Michal
Tavel, Peter
Malinakova, Klara
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description Research in some religious countries shows that religiosity and spirituality positively affect adolescent health. We studied whether religiosity and spirituality also have positive associations with adolescent health in a secular country. We tested the associations between religious attendance and spirituality and self-reported health and health complaints using a representative sample of Czech adolescents (n = 4182, 14.4 ± 1.1 years, 48.6% boys) from the 2014 health behavior in school-aged children (HBSC) study. We used religious attendance, the adjusted shortened version of the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS), and its two components—religious well-being (RWB) and existential well-being (EWB)—as independent variables and the eight item “HBSC symptom checklist” and self-reported overall health as dependent variables. A higher level of spirituality was associated with lower chances of health complaints and self-reported health, ranging from a 9% to 30% decrease in odd ratios (OR). Religious attendance was not associated with any of the observed variables. The EWB showed a negative association with all of the observed variables, with associations ranging from a 19% to 47% decrease. The RWB was associated with a higher risk of nervousness (OR = 1.12), while other associations were not significant. Non-spiritual but attending respondents were more likely to report a higher occurrence of stomachache (OR = 2.20) and had significantly worse overall health (OR = 2.38). In a largely secular country, we found that spirituality and the EWB (unlike religious attendance and the RWB) could have a significant influence on adolescent health.
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spelling pubmed-71779962020-04-28 Spirituality, Religious Attendance and Health Complaints in Czech Adolescents Zidkova, Radka Glogar, Petr Polackova Solcova, Iva P. van Dijk, Jitse Kalman, Michal Tavel, Peter Malinakova, Klara Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Research in some religious countries shows that religiosity and spirituality positively affect adolescent health. We studied whether religiosity and spirituality also have positive associations with adolescent health in a secular country. We tested the associations between religious attendance and spirituality and self-reported health and health complaints using a representative sample of Czech adolescents (n = 4182, 14.4 ± 1.1 years, 48.6% boys) from the 2014 health behavior in school-aged children (HBSC) study. We used religious attendance, the adjusted shortened version of the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS), and its two components—religious well-being (RWB) and existential well-being (EWB)—as independent variables and the eight item “HBSC symptom checklist” and self-reported overall health as dependent variables. A higher level of spirituality was associated with lower chances of health complaints and self-reported health, ranging from a 9% to 30% decrease in odd ratios (OR). Religious attendance was not associated with any of the observed variables. The EWB showed a negative association with all of the observed variables, with associations ranging from a 19% to 47% decrease. The RWB was associated with a higher risk of nervousness (OR = 1.12), while other associations were not significant. Non-spiritual but attending respondents were more likely to report a higher occurrence of stomachache (OR = 2.20) and had significantly worse overall health (OR = 2.38). In a largely secular country, we found that spirituality and the EWB (unlike religious attendance and the RWB) could have a significant influence on adolescent health. MDPI 2020-03-30 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7177996/ /pubmed/32235661 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072339 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32235661
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072339
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