Nutrition, Chronic Care, Measurement Scales and COVID-19

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

doi:10.1007/s10943-024-02116-2

Nutrition, Chronic Care, Measurement Scales and COVID-19

J Relig Health. 2024 Oct;63(5):3251-3255. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02116-2.

Authors

Lindsay B Carey^{1

2}, Harold G Koenig^{3

4

5}, Ezra Gabbay⁶, Terrence Hill⁷, Piret Paal⁸, Jeffery Cohen⁹, Carl Aiken¹⁰, David Drummond¹¹, Jacinda R Carey¹²

Affiliations

¹ School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. [email protected].
² College of Sport, Health and Engineering, Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [email protected].
³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Section, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁸ Department of Ethnology, Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁹ School of Medicine (Sydney), University of Notre Dame Australia and St Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia.
¹⁰ Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide and Alumni, Drew University, Madison, USA.
¹¹ McKellar Centre, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
¹² School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

PMID: 39356344
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-024-02116-2

Abstract

In the year of the Olympics (Paris, 2024), this issue of JORH explores nutrition and chronic care, offers a caution regarding the use of religiosity and spiritual measurement scales, and revisits the topic of COVID-19. While the latter has been rapidly declining in terms of its global impact, each of these areas of inquiry generate a great deal of research from which humanity still has much to learn.

Keywords: COVID-19; Chronic conditions; Contaminated scales; Food; Religion and spirituality scales.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / psychology
Chronic Disease
Humans
Religion and Medicine
SARS-CoV-2
Spirituality