"It wasn’t Luck: God Wants me Here for a Reason": Perceptions of Luck Among US Patients and Its Relationships to Other Factors Among US Patients
Patients may feel "lucky" or "unlucky" regarding disease, but questions arise about what they mean. Interviews suggest that US patients often invoke luck in trying to understand why diseases occur and treatments succeed/fail, and do so in the context of religious and spiritual be...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
2024
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2024, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 2860-2876 |
| Further subjects: | B
Uncertainty
B Spirituality / Religion B Luck B Attitudes B Medical Ethics B Coping |
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| Summary: | Patients may feel "lucky" or "unlucky" regarding disease, but questions arise about what they mean. Interviews suggest that US patients often invoke luck in trying to understand why diseases occur and treatments succeed/fail, and do so in the context of religious and spiritual beliefs, struggling with whether luck comes from God; and feeling luck is involved at various points, whether good or bad, regarding the whole or just aspects of an illness, and reflecting personal traits or single events. Social contexts can affect these views. These data have critical implications for researchers, physicians, nurses, chaplains, other providers and patients. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-023-01859-8 |