TY - JOUR
T1 - Religious Beliefs Shorten Hospital Stays? Psychology Works in Mysterious Ways
T2 - Comment on Contrada et al. (2004)
AU - Freedland, Kenneth E.
PY - 2004/5/1
Y1 - 2004/5/1
N2 - A study by R. J. Contrada et al. (2004) suggested that religious involvement affects recovery from coronary artery bypass graft surgery. This finding makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the role of religion in health and illness, yet it is unlikely to have a comparable impact on coronary artery bypass graft surgery research. Why? What determines the importance of psychosocial predictors of medical outcomes? How can health psychologists increase the impact of biopsychosocial research?
AB - A study by R. J. Contrada et al. (2004) suggested that religious involvement affects recovery from coronary artery bypass graft surgery. This finding makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the role of religion in health and illness, yet it is unlikely to have a comparable impact on coronary artery bypass graft surgery research. Why? What determines the importance of psychosocial predictors of medical outcomes? How can health psychologists increase the impact of biopsychosocial research?
KW - Behavioral research
KW - Coronary artery bypass/complications
KW - Epidemiologic research design
KW - Length of stay
KW - Religion and medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=2142817202&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/0278-6133.23.3.239
DO - 10.1037/0278-6133.23.3.239
M3 - Article
C2 - 15099163
AN - SCOPUS:2142817202
VL - 23
SP - 239
EP - 242
JO - Health Psychology
JF - Health Psychology
SN - 0278-6133
IS - 3
ER -