Department of Health, Society and Aging, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
PLoS One. 2024 Aug 29;19(8):e0309294. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309294. eCollection 2024.
Currently, literature on spiritual health remains limited. Even more so, literature on spiritual health remains limited in Canada. This is exacerbated by the fact that spiritual health is a term that remains widely contested with no concrete definition. Meanwhile, the semantic connection between "religion" and "spirituality" remains ambiguous in the West and scholars hold different positions. In this paper, we outline our scoping review protocol to describe the current landscape of spiritual health and spirituality (in relation to health) research in Canada, including the meaning and understanding behind these two concepts.
This protocol for our scoping review is documented in accordance with the PRISMA-P reporting guidelines and adheres to Arksey and O'Malley's scoping review methodology. We will conduct a search strategy across select electronic databases and review the reference lists of chosen papers. Two reviewers, HMB and MM, will independently and blindly screen all title/abstracts and full-text studies for eligibility. Any Canadian-situated studies that centrally mention and focus on "spirituality" or "spiritual health" will be included. Relevant variables will be extracted through an iterative process, with the data charting being continuously reviewed and refined. Findings from this scoping review will support the future of health research and conceptual expansion of health beyond the mental, physical and social. Approval from a research ethics board is not required, nor has it been obtained, as the data is derived from journal articles and academic publications.
目前，关于精神健康的文献仍然有限。更甚的是，加拿大的精神健康文献也同样有限。这是因为精神健康是一个术语，仍然存在广泛的争议，没有具体的定义。与此同时，“宗教”和“精神”之间的语义联系在西方仍然模糊不清，学者们持有不同的立场。在本文中，我们概述了我们的范围综述方案，以描述加拿大精神健康和精神性（与健康相关）研究的现状，包括这两个概念背后的含义和理解。
本方案是根据 PRISMA-P 报告指南制定的，并遵循 Arksey 和 O'Malley 的范围综述方法。我们将在选定的电子数据库中进行搜索策略，并审查选定论文的参考文献列表。HMB 和 MM 两名评审员将独立、盲目地筛选所有标题/摘要和全文研究的资格。任何以加拿大为背景的研究，如果集中提到并关注“精神性”或“精神健康”，都将被包括在内。通过迭代过程提取相关变量，数据图表将不断进行审查和完善。这项范围综述的结果将支持未来的健康研究，并在心理、生理和社会之外扩展健康的概念。由于数据来自期刊文章和学术出版物，因此不需要也没有获得研究伦理委员会的批准。
