Faith Healing
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Development and validation of measures of religious involvement and the cancer experience among African Americans.

29 Apr 2009 Research indicates that African Americans diagnosed with cancer tend to use religion in coping. However less is known about the specific role that religion plays in the coping process. Based on previous qualitative work, five instruments were ... Read more...

Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health.

13 Apr 2009 BACKGROUND: Prayer is amongst the oldest and most widespread interventions used with the intention of alleviating illness and promoting good health. Given the significance of this response to illness for a large proportion of the world's population, ... Read more...

Is prayer CAM?

30 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Alternative medicine researchers and policy makers have classified prayer as a mind-body intervention, and thus, a modality of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). As such, numerous epidemiological surveys of CAM ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Faith Healing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Miraculous cure in Lourdes?] 22 Sep 2009
• Mass possession state in a family setting. 30 May 2009
• Development and validation of measures of religious involvement and the cancer experience among African Americans. 29 Apr 2009
• Intercessory prayer for the alleviation of ill health. 13 Apr 2009
• Is prayer CAM? 30 Mar 2009
• "And let us make us a name": reflections on the future of the religion and health field. 15 Mar 2009
• Toothache pain: behavioral impact and self-care strategies. 27 Feb 2009
• How faith heals: a theoretical model. 27 Feb 2009
• "No matter what has been done wrong can always be redone right": spirituality in the lives of imprisoned battered women. 15 Feb 2009
• The impact of an intense religious experience on motor symptoms in Huntington's disease. 13 Feb 2009
• [Alternative methods are popular. Conflicts with faith-based medicine] 20 Jan 2009
• Losing faith and using faith: older African Americans discuss spirituality, religious activities, and depression. 19 Jan 2009
• Moral transgression and illness in the Early Modern North. 30 Dec 2008
• "Pur sarripu pursa trutin": monster-fighting and medicine in early medieval Scandinavia. 30 Dec 2008
• Diagnosis of miracle or miraculous diagnosis? Comments on early modern understanding of unnaturalness. 30 Dec 2008
• Scientific ways to study intercessory prayer as an intervention in clinical research. 30 Dec 2008
• Appropriate spiritual care by physicians: a theological perspective. 29 Nov 2008
• The relationship between hope and pain in a sample of hospitalized oncology patients. 29 Nov 2008
• Use of complementary and alternative medicine among patients: classification criteria determine level of use. 29 Sep 2008
• Prayer and self-reported health among cancer survivors in the United States, National Health Interview Survey, 2002. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Faith Healing'

Definition: The use of faith and spirit to cure disease.

Descriptor UI: D029221

Alternative terms: Faith Healing; Healing, Faith; Prayer Healing; Healing, Prayer;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; education; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration;

Tree Number: E02.190.901.155;

History Note: 2002; use MENTAL HEALING 1983-2001