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Is Religion Taboo in Gerontology?

Systematic Review of Research on Religion in Three Major Gerontology Journals, 1985–1991

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NO, and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.

The authors conducted a systematic review of research on religion in three major gerontology journals and found that from 1985 to 1991, 78 of 2,127 (3.6%) quantitative studies included a religious variable. In most cases (71%), measures consisted only of a single question, usually on religious denomination. Only 18% of the studies with a religious variable cited previously published religious research. There was a greater proportion of studies with a religious variable in the gerontology literature than in the psychiatry literature (² = 5.01, df=1, P = 0.025). Publications in gerontology were also significantly more likely than psychiatry to use a multidimensional measure.

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