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P4‐254: The Effect of Religious Involvement on Cognition Across the Aging Lifespan: A Systematic Review
Author(s) -
Hosseini Shera,
Chaurasia Ashok,
Cooke Martin,
Oremus Mark
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.06.2348
Subject(s) - cognition , scope (computer science) , systematic review , psychology , grading (engineering) , meta analysis , scale (ratio) , homogeneous , gerontology , applied psychology , medline , computer science , medicine , political science , civil engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , law , thermodynamics , programming language , engineering , neuroscience
Background:Preserving cognitive health is a crucial aspect of successful aging. We propose to conduct a systematic review and explore the association between religious involvement (RI) and cognition across the aging lifespan from young adulthood to old age.Methods:Wewill conduct a systematic review of the literature in order to establish the current scope of knowledge on RI and cognitive function. We will assess the risk of bias of included articles using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale and evaluate the strength of evidence using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. Results: We will qualitatively synthesize the extracted data from all included articles and for subsets of studies that are sufficiently homogeneous in terms of sample characteristics, measures of RI and cognition, and methods, we will pool results using meta-analysis. Conclusions:The systematic review will provide the most comprehensive assessment of the state of knowledge on the subject to date and will provide information that will permit us to confirm our suspicions about knowledge gaps which could be used to guide future research in the field. We estimate that the results of the review would be available in time for the conference.