title: Possible influence of spiritual and religious beliefs on hypertension.
abstract: Religious and spiritual beliefs are beneficial in stroke patients as coping strategies. This work has investigated the feeling of people about it by proposing to 174 volunteers aged 54.0 +/- 16.9 years the Royal Free Interview (RFI). Interviewed subjects considered the beliefs beneficial for health independently of their form. Ascertaining the pre-morbid understanding of life in subjects at risk of hypertension may be useful to verify self-confidence and coping possibilities against anger, fear, and stress, factors that may exert a negative effect.
authors.affiliation: IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana Rehabilitation Center, Rome, Italy. salvatore.giaquinto@sanraffaele.it
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giaquinto
authors.forename: Cristiana
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spiridigliozzi
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001293:Attitude to Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012067:Religion; D029181:Spirituality; D013315:Stress, Psychological