Remembering 9/11, Moral Injury, COVID-19 and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health

Lindsay B Carey; Jeffery Cohen; Harold G Koenig; Terrence Hill; Ezra Gabbay; Carl Aiken; Jacinda R Carey

doi:10.1007/s10943-021-01423-2

Remembering 9/11, Moral Injury, COVID-19 and Measuring Religion, Spirituality and Health

J Relig Health. 2021 Oct;60(5):2977-2982. doi: 10.1007/s10943-021-01423-2. Epub 2021 Sep 7.

Authors

Lindsay B Carey¹, Jeffery Cohen², Harold G Koenig^{3

4}, Terrence Hill⁵, Ezra Gabbay⁶, Carl Aiken^{7

8}, Jacinda R Carey⁹

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. [email protected].
² School of Medicine (Sydney), University of Notre Dame Australia, St Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Section, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Drew University Alumni, Maddison, NJ, USA.
⁸ Royal Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
⁹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

Four key themes are covered in this issue of JORH, namely: (1) the catastrophic events of 11 September 2001, (2) the syndrome of moral injury, (3) the ongoing calamity of COVID-19, and finally, (4) the validation, translation and use of measurement instruments/scales assessing religion, spirituality and health.

Keywords: 9/11; COVID-19; Chaplains; Moral injury; Religion/spiritual measurement scales.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Religion
SARS-CoV-2
Spirituality
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic*