Religious Ritual Is Good Medicine for Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees: Implications for Global Mental Health
Religious Ritual Is Good Medicine for Indigenous Indian Conservation Refugees: Implications for Global Mental Health
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宗教仪式是印度土著保护难民的良药：对全球心理健康的影响
DOI：
10.1086/691212
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Chakrapani Upadhyay
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass;David Most;Chakrapani Upadhyay
我们测试了宗教仪式是减轻还是增加了最近从印度中部野生动物保护区流离失所的土著撒哈拉保护难民的压力和焦虑。结合民族志、结构化调查和唾液分析数据（压力激素皮质醇），我们在撒哈拉人庆祝印度洒红节和Navratri节之前、期间和之后的两个9天期间追踪了di/压力。结果显示所有精神病学和分析数据的精神改善。对于那些更富有、不安全感更高的人来说，这种影响更大，这表明仪式治疗可能受到现金和资源注入的影响，也可能受到表演环境相对不稳定的影响。同样，报告焦虑和抑郁程度较高的人的健康状况改善程度较低，这意味着这些仪式更有可能在健康个体中灌输身心恢复能力，而不是作为对遭受更严重痛苦的人的心理治疗干预。我们的研究结果表明，在高度不确定的情况下，当地的文化工作可以作为健康复原力的潜在重要来源，有可能预防压力和创伤引起的痛苦，这应该被国家和非政府组织在类似的灾难和难民环境中向世界上的穷人提供援助时加以考虑。
We tested whether religious ritual lessens or increases stress and anxiety among indigenous Sahariya conservation refugees recently displaced from a wildlife sanctuary in central India. Combining ethnography with structured survey and salivary analyte data (the stress hormone cortisol), we tracked di/stress over two 9-day periods before, during, and after Sahariya celebrations of the Hindu holidays of Holi and Navratri. Results show postritual improvement on all psychiatric and analyte data. The effects were larger for individuals who were wealthier and reported higher insecurity, suggesting that ritual healing might be impacted by infusions of cash and resources and also by the relative precariousness of the performance context. Likewise, health improvements were lower for individuals reporting higher anxiety and depression, implying that rites such as these are more likely to instill psychosomatic resilience in healthy individuals than to serve as a psychotherapeutic intervention for persons suffering more severely. Our results suggest that the local work of culture can serve as a potentially important source of health resilience in situations of high uncertainty, potentially preventing stress- and trauma-induced suffering, which should be taken into account by state and NGO organizations extending aid to the world’s poor in similar disaster and refugee contexts.
影响因子：
5.4
作者：
Norris, Fran H.;Tracy, Melissa;Galea, Sandro
通讯作者：
Galea, Sandro
影响因子：
12.8
作者：
Keng, Shian-Ling;Smoski, Mona J.;Robins, Clive J.
通讯作者：
Robins, Clive J.
宗教应对恐怖主义和自然灾害。
影响因子：
1.1
作者：
Trevino,KellyM;Pargament,KennethL
通讯作者：
Pargament,KennethL