Religion and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM Vol. 19, Issue 2)

Price per Article:
Nonmember – $40
Member – FREE

Credits: 1 CME/CE Credit

Learning Objectives:

Define and differentiate between religion, religiosity, secular spirituality, and spirituality
State the percentage of adults who report that religion is an important part of their lives
Describe how religion and spirituality fit within whole health models and among lifestyle medicine pillars
Identify examples of faith-placed vs. faith-based (faith-recognized and faith-integrated) practices within communities and clinics
Recall the proposed basic decision tree questions around religion and spiritually for patient-centered lifestyle medicine clinical care

Overview:

Decades of research now support the positive relationship of religion/spirituality (R/S) with physical health, mental health, morbidity, and mortality. While lifestyle medicine (LM) practitioners often recognize R/S as important, they can face common challenges of how to integrate R/S into their holistic, patient-centered care. To help, this article presents a faith-practice framework, as a starting point for considering incorporating R/S into LM practice—in light of common concerns and challenges, as a guide for patient-centered care through adjusting lifestyle prescriptions to accommodate individualized R/S beliefs and practices for improved health behavior and outcomes, and as an encouragement to stimulate openness for positive, thoughtful discussion into the future of R/S in LM practice and research.

Format: This learning activity consists of one AJLM article and one quiz.

Duration: 1 hour

Assessment and Measurement: A score of 80% or higher on the quiz is required to pass the learning activity.

Specifications: This course can be viewed on desktop, tablet or mobile device.

Term of Approval: February 10, 2025 – February 9, 2028

Participant User Agreement (Terms of Use and Copyright): Before registering for a Continuing Education/Continuing Medical Education Course (“Training”) for the first time, carefully review the following conditions of usage at https://lifestylemedicine.org/terms-of-use-and-copyright-cme-ce/.

Registering for an American College of Lifestyle Medicine Course indicates your acceptance of the Participant User Agreement and its terms and conditions.

Enrollment: Access to online material is granted through the term of approval which ends February 9, 2028.

Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by RUSH University Medical Center and American College of Lifestyle Medicine. RUSH University Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Designation Statements:

For Medicine: Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

For Nursing: Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 nursing contact hour(s).

For Pharmacy: Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1.0 contact hour(s) for pharmacists.

For Psychologists: Rush University Medical Center designates this journal-based CME activity for 1.0 CE credits in psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship in the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

For Dieticians: This journal-based CME activity has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Completion of this activity awards 1.0 CPEUs.

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ABLM MOC: The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine has approved 1.0 maintenance of certification credits for this learning activity.

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Individuals in control of content have disclosed the following:

Rohit Moghe, PharmD, MSPH, CDCES – Member, Speakers Bureau, Novo Nordisk

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