The Associations of Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic With Religiosity and Spirituality: A Cross-Sectional Study in Czech Adults
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F22%3A73615858" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/22:73615858 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604712/full" target="_blank" >https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604712/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604712" target="_blank" >10.3389/ijph.2022.1604712</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Associations of Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic With Religiosity and Spirituality: A Cross-Sectional Study in Czech Adults
Original language description
Objectives: We investigated the associations between religiosity/spirituality and respondents' changes in their relationships, feelings, thinking, and behaviour during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic.Methods: A sample of Czech adults (n = 1,434; 48.3 +/- 16.4 years; 49.65% women) participated in the online survey. We measured spirituality, religiosity, self-reported changes in relationships, disrupted feelings, and changes in behaviour during the pandemic.Results: Spiritual respondents were more likely to report increased physical activity, sex, reading and self-education, with odds ratios (ORs) ranging from 1.26 (95% confidence interval 1.09-1.46) to 1.56 (1.31-1.86). The combination of spirituality and religiosity led to an increase in the range of ORs to 1.57-2.69. Spiritual and religious participants were less likely to feel the decrease of hope by 70%, while mere spirituality significantly reduced the decrease of hope by only 30%. Religiosity itself led to a lower risk of reporting a disrupted day structure with an OR = 0.74 (0.58-0.95).Conclusion: Religiosity and spirituality separately help people during a pandemic in some areas. Especially their combination has a more positive impact on relationships, feelings, and behaviour.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-19526S" target="_blank" >GA19-19526S: Biological and psychological aspects of spiritual experience and their associations with health</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Public Health
ISSN
1661-8556
e-ISSN
1661-8564
Volume of the periodical
67
Issue of the periodical within the volume
june 2022
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
nestrankovano
UT code for WoS article
000816924700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85133146806