Maintaining Health and Well-Being by Putting Faith into Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview

Journal J Relig Health

Publisher Springer

Specialties General Medicine
Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 2020 May 16

PMID 32409989

Citations 57

Authors

Harold G Koenig

Affiliations

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Abstract

Anxiety and fear adversely affect the physiological systems that protect individuals from infection. This article comments on the role that religious faith and practice can play in helping individuals remain free from infection by the coronavirus and in helping to moderate the effects of infection if that should occur. The author provides six recommendations to help individuals maintain spiritual, mental, and physical resilience during these anxious times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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