Mental Health, Islam, Clinical Issues and COVID-19

Lindsay B Carey; Harold G Koenig; Ezra Gabbay; Terrence Hill; Jeffrey Cohen; Carl Aiken; David Drummond; Jacinda R Carey

doi:10.1007/s10943-022-01648-9

Mental Health, Islam, Clinical Issues and COVID-19

J Relig Health. 2022 Oct;61(5):3567-3570. doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01648-9. Epub 2022 Aug 27.

Authors

Lindsay B Carey^{1

2

3}, Harold G Koenig^{4

5

6}, Ezra Gabbay⁷, Terrence Hill⁸, Jeffrey Cohen^{9

10}, Carl Aiken^{11

12}, David Drummond¹³, Jacinda R Carey¹⁴

Affiliations

¹ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
² Centre for Spiritually, Theology and Health, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
³ Institute for Ethics and Society, The University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia. Lindsay.Carey@latrobe.edu.au.
⁴ Centre for Spiritually, Theology and Health, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Duke University Health Systems, Durham, NC, USA.
⁶ Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁸ The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁹ School of Medicine (Sydney), University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia.
¹⁰ St Vincent's Private Hospital Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
¹¹ Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
¹² Drew University Alumni, Maddison, NJ, USA.
¹³ Barwon Health and University Hospital Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁴ Public Health Palliative Care Unit, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Abstract

In this fifth issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022, four key themes are revisited: (1) mental health, (2) Islam, (3) various clinical issues relating to religiosity and/or spirituality and (4) the ongoing concerns of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Clinical issues; Islam; Mental health.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Islam* / psychology
Mental Health
Religion
Spirituality