Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in behavioral medicine

Summary of the Article
Park, C. (2018). Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral
medicine. PMC , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5183527/.
In the current article, the author conducted research where he established religion and Spirituality
(RS) as a determinant of behavioral intervention. The crux of the article says that 80 percent of the
world population identifies RS as a backbone of their existence in this world (Poole,2011).
Image 1: The RS dependent model developed by the researchers, Retrieved From
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In order to develop a hypothesis, the researchers presented model researchers came up with some
behavioral mechanism to influence the habits and psychology of patients and normal individuals
with the help of RS based interventions. They calculated the impact of these behavioral
interventions on the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of the individuals.