Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communal religious worshippers’ mental health and the benefits of positive religious coping
Our study demonstrates the significant impact of COVID-19 on communal worshippers' mental health and reinforces the benefits of positive religious coping during the first UK lockdown. Barriers to communal worship participation during lockdowns, including access to appropriate technology, need to be recognised and facilitators identified.
Authors
- Rebecca F. Baggaley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4688-3924)
- Laurence B. Lovat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4542-3915)
- Kai Man Alexander Ho (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7585-6848)
- John Maltby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0621-9359)
- Christopher R. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4265-0899)
- Áine Hoga
- Robert Merrifield
- Timothy Stone
Institutions
- University of Leicester (GB)
- Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (GB)
- Dynavax Technologies (Germany) (DE)
- University College London (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Heliyon
- Published
- 2024-10-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39093
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.58
Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- National Institute for Health and Care Research
- University College London
- Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- UCLH Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre