Koenig Harold G
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3400, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
J Relig Health. 2020 Oct;59(5):2205-2214. doi: 10.1007/s10943-020-01035-2.
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.
焦虑和恐惧会对保护个体免受感染的生理系统产生不利影响。本文评论了宗教信仰和实践在帮助个体免受冠状病毒感染以及在感染发生时帮助减轻感染影响方面可以发挥的作用。作者提供了六项建议,以帮助个体在新冠疫情这一焦虑时期保持精神、心理和身体的复原力。