Spirituality and Cognition in Black Older Adults: Examining Changes in Church Activity
Katherine Carroll Britt, Fanghong Dong, Lauren M Massimo, Jill B Hamilton, Nancy A Hodgson, Shana D Stites, Dawn Mechanic‐Hamilton · 2025
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Katherine Carroll Britt and six co-authors ask whether a shift in church life tracks with thinking skills in older Black adults, in this 2025 study. Black Americans bear a heavier burden of Alzheimer's disease than White Americans, for reasons still being unraveled. Church and spiritual practice are longstanding coping resources in Black communities, so change there might matter.
The team reused data from a University of Pennsylvania aging cohort: 158 cognitively normal adults, 44 Black and 114 White, enrolled in 2021 and 2022. Regression models adjusted for age, sex, education, and social contact. Among Black participants, reporting a major change in church activity over the prior year, much more or much less, went with lower cognition scores. No such link appeared among White participants. The authors treat change itself, in either direction, as the signal.
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| CREATOR | Katherine Carroll Britt, Fanghong Dong, Lauren M Massimo, Jill B Hamilton, Nancy A Hodgson, Shana D Stites, Dawn Mechanic‐Hamilton |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |