Distinguishing between spiritual health and religious involvement as determinants of adolescent health in Canada and the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi-org.proxy-ub.rug.nl/10.1093/heapro/daaa046" target="_blank" >https://doi-org.proxy-ub.rug.nl/10.1093/heapro/daaa046</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa046" target="_blank" >10.1093/heapro/daaa046</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Distinguishing between spiritual health and religious involvement as determinants of adolescent health in Canada and the Czech Republic

Original language description

Spiritual health is a topic of emergent interest; however, lack of a clear distinction between spiritual health and religious involvement makes it difficult to understand the potential role of spiritual health as a determinant of health. Analyses of such relationships that cross countries and cultures are rare. We therefore assessed whether differences exist between spiritual health and religious involvement and their respective associations with general indicators adolescent health. The study was based on the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in Canada (n = 10 761) and the Czech Republic (n = 4411). In both countries, we failed to identify strong or statistically significant associations between self-reported religiosity and adolescent health. In contrast, adolescents with higher spiritual health scores consistently reported enhanced levels of general health status. Study findings point to the importance of a strong sense of spiritual health as a protective determinant of adolescent health, and raise questions about religious involvement as protective to adolescent health outcomes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

HEALTH PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL

ISSN

0957-4824

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

36

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

286-296

UT code for WoS article

000637271500028

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102964349