Religious belief, depression, and ambulation status in elderly women with broken hips
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 147 (6) , 758-760
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.6.758
Abstract
The authors studied the relationship between religious belief and psychiatric and medical status in 30 elderly women recovering from the surgical repair of broken hips. Religious belief was associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms and better ambulation status.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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