key: cord-0981707-blzvtmn7 authors: Carey, Lindsay B.; Koenig, Harold G.; Gabbay, Ezra; Hill, Terrence; Cohen, Jeffrey; Aiken, Carl; Carey, Jacinda R. title: Nursing, Diabetes, Hemodialysis and COVID-19 date: 2022-05-17 journal: J Relig Health DOI: 10.1007/s10943-022-01586-6 sha: 65f726e661abacc0c04fc6a75ff6f0614e7a55dc doc_id: 981707 cord_uid: blzvtmn7 Four key themes are explored in this third issue of the Journal of Religion and Health for 2022: (1) the lead topic for this issue considers the work and spiritual care provided by nurses, which is followed by a series of articles on the subject areas of (2) diabetes and (3) hemodialysis. Then, like previous issues, we again consider (4) research exploring the effects of COVID-19. Finally, this issue presents a miscellaneous collection of articles with respect to various faith dynamics and the findings from several national surveys. Two stresses on an international level continue to affect our globe, namely the Russian-Ukraine War and COVID-19. A previous editorial has noted the views of JORH editors and Springer regarding Russia's latest war (Carey et al, 2022, p. 921) . The malicious invasion into Ukraine has, at the time of writing, now resulted in over 5000 Ukrainian causalities, millions of asylum seekers, and a substantial waste of capital infrastructure, livestock, and crops-which has consequently affected food supplies and resources to multiple other countries (WHO, 2022a) . It is sad that Russia did not focus their energy on caring for their own 18 million who have contracted COVID-19, nor comforted the relatives of the 369,000 Russians who have died from the disease. Likewise, COVID-19 continues to claim victims and challenges the economic productivity of all countries (WHO, 2022b) . This current issue of JORH also considers the role that religion plays in other common and ongoing international health problems, namely diabetes, end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis, and human organ donation. Finally, this issue concludes with a farewell to Ms. Carol Bischoff who retires after years of service to the publisher Springer Nature and to JORH. A previous issue and editorial of JORH (2021; 60:2) considered the work of nurses in health care, noting their substantial contribution to the bio-psychosocial-spiritual care of patients, as well as the rapport, trust and respect that patients have toward nurses (Carey et al, 2021, p. 2) . This issue continues that recognition by drawing together research relating to nurses in the USA, Spain, Greece, Iran and most notably Turkey. First, Stephanie Harris and colleagues from the USA examine the impact of nurses' personal religious and spiritual beliefs on their mental well-being and burnout; (ii) José Siles-González and co-workers from Spain explore a structural dialectic model of care in nursing research; (iii) Evangelos Fradelos and colleagues from Greece examine research factors affecting nurses' caring behaviors; and (iv) Hassan Babamohamadi and associates from Iran look at student nurses' professional competence in providing spiritual care. A new combined topic within this issue of JORH is that of diabetes and hemodialysis-with attention also paid to blood and organ donation. Marian Botchway et al. The last 10 JORH issues have included reports regarding the challenge of COVID-19, which has now caused over 6 million deaths worldwide (WHO, 2022b). The USA still leads with the greatest number of deaths (1 million), followed by India (524,000). In this issue, Michael Connolly et al. present a scoping review of literature exploring the spiritual needs (and spiritual support) of patients and families within health care settings during COVID-19; (ii) Juan Vega-Escaño and colleagues conduct an integrative review of the scientific literature evaluating the role of spirituality and religiosity in health care during the COVID-19 pandemic; (iii) Radosław Trepanowski et al. discuss results from a cross-national comparison of religion as a predictor of COVID-19 vaccination rates. The well-known Irish academic Fiona Timmins and her team (iv) report on a preliminary European fact-finding study on spiritual care provided to hospitalized patients during (v) Finally, an eclectic collection of articles considers a variety of issues related to belief, disbelief, religion, spirituality, and health, including several articles which report on the findings from large international surveys. David Speed et al. begin this section by discussing (i) doubt and disbelief con- Finally in this section, (xvi) the highly regarded researcher John Nezlek and his team present data from the 2020 European and World Values Surveys on religion and health; (xvii) Carol Jagger et al. also analyze data from the European Values Survey to determine whether religiosity or spirituality are related to self-reported health expectancy; and finally, (xviii) another valued researcher Niels Hvidt and colleagues present information on the NERSH questionnaire that assesses physician religious characteristics and values and the pooling of data from 12 countries which were collected using this instrument. In a previous editorial (JORH 60:6), we celebrated 60 years of the production of JORH (Carey, 2021, p. 3753) . It is important to acknowledge those who have made a substantial contribution to JORH. Carol has fulfilled the role of Senior Editor for Springer Nature for many years and is now retiring. We thank Carol for her careful concern regarding the well-being of JORH and wish her well into the future. COVID-19, nursing, pediatrics and measuring religion and health Chaplaincy, cancer, aged care and COVID-19 Christianity, family, students, and COVID-19 Religiously/spiritually involved, but in doubt or disbelief-Why? Healthy? The JORH editors welcome submissions regarding 'Judaism' and/or 'Suicide.' Researchers who would like to make submissions on these topics, please email one of the editors as soon as possible. Submissions are made through the Editorial Manager on the JORH web site: https:// www. sprin ger. com/ journ al/ 10943/ submi ssionguide lines.