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**Spirituality and health: towards a framework for exploring the relationship between spirituality and health** **Background.** A growing body of evidence has found that spirituality enhances health. However, spirituality is an elusive concept that defies clear definition. This inevitably presents difficulties when comparing the findings of studies. Therefore conceptual clarification is essential if practitioners are to better understand the relationship between spirituality and health. **Aims.** The aim of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework, which can be used to explore the relationship between spirituality and health. **Methods.** The concept‐indicator model was used to analyse spirituality in the literature. The literature was searched for empirical indicators or what are taken as essential attributes of spirituality. Similarities and differences between approaches were identified and these formed the basis of a framework. **Findings.** The analysis identified three approaches (a trichotomy) to spirituality in the literature. These were termed the transcendent, the value guidance and the structuralist–behaviourist approaches. The paper shows how by clarifying the di

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Author

Joanne Coyle

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0309-2402)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)