Experience of Spiritual Dryness and Acedia Symptoms in Seventh-Day Adventists

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In a cross-sectional survey among 626 Adventists, we investigated their perception of spiritual dryness, and its association with indicators of Acedia, well-being and emotional exhaustion. Women, younger persons and those without a specific duty within the church had significantly higher spiritual dryness scores. Spiritual dryness was predicted best by perceived Excessive Spiritual Demands (indicating spiritual exhaustion) and low perception of the sacred. Further predictors are Acedia’s Difficulties in Prayer Life, reduced well-being and emotional exhaustion. The underlying causes might be complex and thus to support persons experiencing these phases, a thorough differentiation of the underlying ‘spirits’ is required.

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Vegetarian dietary patterns and mortality in Adventist Health Study 2.

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Some evidence suggests vegetarian dietary patterns may be associated with reduced mortality, but the relationship is not well established. To evaluate the association between vegetarian dietary patterns and mortality. Prospective cohort study; mortality analysis by Cox proportional hazards regression, controlling for important demographic and lifestyle confounders. Adventist Health Study 2 (AHS-2), a large North American cohort. A total of 96,469 Seventh-day Adventist men and women recruited between 2002 and 2007, from which an analytic sample of 73,308 participants remained after exclusions. Diet was assessed at baseline by a quantitative food frequency questionnaire and categorized into 5 dietary patterns: nonvegetarian, semi-vegetarian, pesco-vegetarian, lacto-ovo-vegetarian, and vegan. The relationship between vegetarian dietary patterns and all-cause and cause-specific mortality; deaths through 2009 were identified from the National Death Index. There were 2570 deaths among 73,308 participants during a mean follow-up time of 5.79 years. The mortality rate was 6.05 (95% CI, 5.82-6.29) deaths per 1000 person-years. The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for all-cause mortality in all vegetarians combined vs nonvegetarians was 0.88 (95% CI, 0.80-0.97). The adjusted HR for all-cause mortality in vegans was 0.85 (95% CI, 0.73-1.01); in lacto-ovo-vegetarians, 0.91 (95% CI, 0.82-1.00); in pesco-vegetarians, 0.81 (95% CI, 0.69-0.94); and in semi-vegetarians, 0.92 (95% CI, 0.75-1.13) compared with nonvegetarians. Significant associations with vegetarian diets were detected for cardiovascular mortality, noncardiovascular noncancer mortality, renal mortality, and endocrine mortality. Associations in men were larger and more often significant than were those in women. Vegetarian diets are associated with lower all-cause mortality and with some reductions in cause-specific mortality. Results appeared to be more robust in males. These favorable associations should be considered carefully by those offering dietary guidance.

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Arndt Büssing:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5025-7950

arndt.buessing@uni-wh.de

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Relig Health

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Relig Health

Title: Journal of Religion and Health

Publisher: Springer US (New York )

ISSN (Print): 0022-4197

ISSN (Electronic): 1573-6571

Publication date (Electronic): 2 November 2020

Publication date PMC-release: 2 November 2020

Publication date (Print): 2021

Volume: 60

Issue: 2

Pages: 1261-1280

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[1 ]GRID grid.412581.b, ISNI 0000 0000 9024 6397, Institute of Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Health, , Witten/Herdecke University, ; Gerhard-Kienle Weg 4, 58313 Herdecke, Germany

[2 ]IUNCTUS - Competence Center for Christian Spirituality, Philosophical–Theological Academy, 48149 Münster, Germany

[3 ]Institute for Holistic Wellbeing and Resilience, Bremen, 28215 Germany

[4 ]Institute of Continuing Education of Seventh-Day-Adventists (IfW), Ostfildern, 30519 Germany

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Publisher ID: 1092

DOI: 10.1007/s10943-020-01092-7

PMC ID: 7997817

PubMed ID: 33136232

SO-VID: d3974d5a-b331-4bbe-b5f4-57f4b7aa1602

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Date accepted : 18 September 2020

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Funded by: Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH (3128)

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