An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses on the Association Between Religion/Spirituality and Health/Well-Being

作者：Edward B. Davis, Zhuo Job Chen, Richard G. Cowden, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Steve Oberg, Greta Bivins, Cate Newcity, Eden Song, Harold G. Koenig · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.4324/9781003440048-25 · 被引用次数：1 · 研究领域：Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology、Workplace Spirituality and Leadership、Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

A large and growing body of research has examined the relationship between religion/spirituality (R/S) and health/well-being (HWB). This chapter offers an overview of the systematic reviews and meta-analyses that have studied this relationship. We searched five databases (PsycINFO, MEDLINE/PubMed, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href=" https://Healthevidence.org ">Healthevidence.org ) in January 2024 and found 27,969 publications after de-duplication and citation searching. After independent screening of all titles/abstracts and 1,058 full texts, 432 publications met the inclusion criteria (published in English in a journal or scholarly book; specified its search strategy and individual studies; synthesized studies that mostly (≥ 90%) included quantitative measures of at least one R/S variable and one HWB variable). The 270 systematic reviews, 61 meta-analyses, and 101 systematic reviews/meta-analyses were collectively published in 273 sources (263 journals, 10 books) and authored by 1,542 contributors. They synthesized a median of 18 studies and evaluated R/S’s association with a median of two HWB dimensions—most commonly mental health (68.5% of reviews), physical health (62.7%), happiness/life satisfaction (39.8%), or behavioral health (28.9%). Reviews often focused on a special population (70.4%; e.g., cancer patients) and/or an intervention (yoga [35.6%], fasting [7.4%], or another spiritual intervention [22.9%]). Findings usuall...