Little is known about current attitudes towards cousin marriages. Using data from a rural population in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the present research examined how life history was related to attitudes towards cousin marriages in various ethnic groups. Participants were 205 parents from three ethnic groups. i.e., Mestizos (people of mixed descent, n = 103), indigenous Mixtecs (n = 65), and B...

OBJECTIVE An exploratory study of the attitudes of hospital patients to the service provided by hospital chaplains. DESIGN Questionnaire study of hospital inpatients in December 1992. SETTING One large teaching hospital in London. PATIENTS 180 hospital inpatients in 14 different general wards, 168 (93%) of whom agreed to take part. MAIN MEASURES Attitudes to chaplains and their role con...

BACKGROUND International guidance for advance care planning (ACP) supports the integration of spiritual and religious aspects of care within the planning process. Religious leaders' perspectives could improve how ACP programs respect patients' faith backgrounds. This study aimed to examine: (i) how religious leaders understand and consider ACP and its implications, including (ii) how religion a...

The goal of this study is to gain a better understanding of what women in their early 20’s are thinking about abortion and the different factors that influence a woman having an abortion. Also, this study is looking for a correlation between whether or not these women’s religious views are affecting their views on abortion. Another factor we are looking for in this study is how those women who ...

OBJECTIVE Relatively little research has investigated the connection between religiosity and physical child abuse risk. Certain aspects, such as specific religious orientation or beliefs, and cognitive schema, such as socially conformist beliefs, may account for the connection that some have claimed increase religious parents' abuse potential. The current study examined whether greater Extrinsi...

CONTEXT Controversy exists regarding whether and how physicians should address religion/spirituality (R/S) with patients. OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship between physicians' religious characteristics and their attitudes and self-reported behaviors regarding R/S in the clinical encounter. METHODS A cross-sectional mailed survey of a stratified random sample of 2000 practicing ...

Evidence indicates widespread stigmatization of persons living with HIV (PLWH) in Indonesia. Such attitudes among health care workers could impede the country's policies for effective diagnosis and medical treatment of PLWH. Nonetheless, research to guide interventions to reduce stigma in health care settings is lacking. Also, the contributions of workplace, religion, and HIV knowledge to nurse...

The study examined how religious beliefs and practices impact upon medication and illness representations in chronic schizophrenia. One hundred three stabilized patients were included in Geneva's outpatient public psychiatric facility in Switzerland. Interviews were conducted to investigate spiritual and religious beliefs and religious practices and religious coping. Medication adherence was as...