Prevalence of Religious and Spiritual Experiences and the Perceived Influence Thereof in Patients With Bipolar Disorder in a Dutch Specialist Outpatient Center
| Autor: | Janwillem Renes, Arjan W. Braam, Hetty Zock, Hanneke Muthert, Hanne A Stolp, Eva Ouwehand, Heike H Garritsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Adult Hospitals Psychiatric Male Religion and Psychology Bipolar Disorder Outpatient Clinics Hospital Cross-sectional study IMPACT media_common.quotation_subject 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Religious PSYCHOSIS RELEVANCE Quality of life religious affiliation QUALITY-OF-LIFE BELIEFS SCHIZOPHRENIA medicine Prevalence Outpatient clinic Humans Bipolar disorder media_common Netherlands DELUSIONS ANOMALOUS EXPERIENCES Middle Aged medicine.disease Anomalous experiences DEPRESSION 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Divine presence Happiness spiritual experiences Female medicine.symptom spiritual self-definition Psychology Mania 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE, 207(4):4, 291-299. LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS |
| ISSN: | 1539-736X 0022-3018 |
| Popis: | The aim of the current cross-sectional study was to estimate the prevalence of religious and spiritual (R/S) experiences and their perceived lasting influence in outpatients with bipolar disorder (BD; n = 196). A questionnaire with a range of R/S was constructed, building on the results of an earlier qualitative study. Experiences of horizontal transcendence (not necessarily referring to the divine) such as the experience of "intense happiness, love, peace, beauty, freedom" (77%) or "meaningful synchronicity" (66%) were the most prevalent. The experience of "divine presence" (vertical transcendence, referring to the divine) had a prevalence of 44%. Perceived lasting influence of the experiences was 20% to 67% of the total frequency, depending on the type. Most positive R/S experiences were significantly more related to BD I and mania, and on average, persons with BD I had more R/S experiences (mean = 4.5, SD = 2.6) than those with BD II (mean = 2.8, SD = 2.4, p = 0.000). Patient-reported R/S experiences in BD can have both R/S and pathological features. |
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