Jirásek Ivo, Badura Petr, King Nathan, Pickett William, Michaelson Valerie
Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
Health Promot Int. 2021 Mar 12;36(1):286-296. doi: 10.1093/heapro/daaa046.
Spiritual health is a topic of emergent interest; however, lack of a clear distinction between spiritual health and religious involvement makes it difficult to understand the potential role of spiritual health as a determinant of health. Analyses of such relationships that cross countries and cultures are rare. We therefore assessed whether differences exist between spiritual health and religious involvement and their respective associations with general indicators adolescent health. The study was based on the 2013/2014 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in Canada (n = 10 761) and the Czech Republic (n = 4411). In both countries, we failed to identify strong or statistically significant associations between self-reported religiosity and adolescent health. In contrast, adolescents with higher spiritual health scores consistently reported enhanced levels of general health status. Study findings point to the importance of a strong sense of spiritual health as a protective determinant of adolescent health, and raise questions about religious involvement as protective to adolescent health outcomes.
精神健康是一个新近受到关注的话题；然而，精神健康与宗教参与之间缺乏明确区分，这使得难以理解精神健康作为健康决定因素的潜在作用。对跨越国家和文化的此类关系进行分析的情况很少见。因此，我们评估了精神健康与宗教参与之间是否存在差异，以及它们各自与青少年健康总体指标之间的关联。该研究基于2013/2014年在加拿大（n = 10761）和捷克共和国（n = 4411）开展的学龄儿童健康行为研究。在这两个国家，我们均未发现自我报告的宗教信仰与青少年健康之间存在强烈或具有统计学意义的关联。相比之下，精神健康得分较高的青少年一致报告其总体健康状况有所改善。研究结果表明，强烈的精神健康意识作为青少年健康的保护性决定因素具有重要意义，并引发了关于宗教参与对青少年健康结果是否具有保护作用的疑问。
