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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of religious affiliation and acceptance of medical treatment. It explores a published scientific article. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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scientists pushing boundaries, and religious adherents pushing back, arguing for conservative ethics to play a role in slowing progress. At times, however, this tension has become rather extreme, with some
religious adherents even refusing to take part in medical science for the sake of basic health care, arguing that doing so is acting against the laws of faith and faith-based
healing that govern many religions. This issue was recently explored in a 2011 study by Ng, Nyunt, Chiam, and Kua, entitled "Religion, health beliefs, and the use of mental health
services by the elderly". In this study, the authors were attempting to fill a perceived gap in psychological research by "investigating whether elderly people of particular religious affiliations were
more or less likely to seek treatment for mental illness, and whether it was related to their health beliefs" (Ng, Nyunt, Chiam, and Kua, 2011). This is a significant study
because it can help to determine the extent to which elderly patients may be foregoing vitally needed medical attention, on the basis of religious beliefs. The sociological implications of such
a study are obvious, but it also contains scientific import, as it allows for the indirect analysis of the mitigating factors of religious affiliation on belief and health consciousness, for
society as a whole. The authors carried out their study by examining data that was obtained in 2004 from the National Mental Survey of Elderly Singaporeans (Ng, Nyunt, Chiam,
and Kua, 2011). The data obtained from the Survey included information on "reported religious affiliations, and 1-year prevalence of mental disorders", based on a number of sources, including "diagnostic interviews
using the Geriatric Mental State schedule, self-report of treatment for mental health problems, and health beliefs about the curability of mental illness, embarrassment and stigma", and a number of other
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