HaroldGeoKoenigMD

PubMed

• The Effect of the Holy Quran Recitation on Inflammatory Markers in Hemodialysis Patients in Iran: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Maedeh Teimourzadeh, Hassan Babamohamadi, Maliheh Yarmohamadi, Raheb Ghorbani, Harold G Koenig
  Journal of Religion and Health. 2024-12-01
• Elder abuse and neglect, novel factors affecting depression risk, SARS-CoV-2 Omicron-induced anxiety, and provider flourishing in pediatric palliative care.
  Harold G Koenig
  International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine. 2024-11-01
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  Religion, Spirituality and Health Research: Warning of Contaminated Scales.
  Harold G Koenig, Lindsay B Carey
  Journal of Religion and Health. 2024-10-01

Journal Articles

• Perils of therophylline use in the elderly.  
  Koenig HG, Blake R, Geriatrics
• Growing old: According to the Bible.  
  Koenig HG, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
• Creating geriatric fellowships in family practice.  
  Koenig HG, Kvale JN, Family Medicine
• Geriatric fellowships in family medicine: Status and directions.  
  Koenig HG, Kvale JN, Hector M, Family Medicine
• Life satisfaction of the aging woman religious.  
  Kvale JN, Koenig HG, Ferrel C, Journal of Religion and Aging
• Religious and non-religious coping: Impact on adaptation in later life.  
  Koenig HG, Siegler IC, George LK, Journal of Religion and Aging
• The use of depression rating scales: A reply to O'Neill et al.  
  Koenig HG, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
• The impact of religion on blood pressure status in men.  
  Larson DB, Koenig HG, Kaplan BH, et al, Journal of Religion and Health
• Antidepressant use in the medically ill older person.  
  Koenig HG, Breitner J, Psychosomatics
• Depressed or just sick?  
  Koenig HG, Archives of Internal Medicine
• Depressive Disorders in hospitalized medically ill patients: A comparison of young and elderly men.  
  Koenig HG, Meador KG, Shelp F, Goli V, Cohen HJ, Blazer DG, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
• Major depression in hospitalized medically ill men: Documentation, treatment, and prognosis.  
  Koenig HG, Goli V, Shelp F, Kudler HS, Cohen HJ, Blazer DG, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Religion and coping with sexual impotence in later life.  
  Koenig HG, Herman S, Journal of Religious Gerontology
• Screening for depression.  
  Koenig HG, J Am Geriatr Society
• Religion and aging.  
  Koenig HG, Reviews in Clinical Gerontology
• Trends in geriatric psychiatry of relevance to pastoral counselors.  
  Koenig HG, Journal of Religion & Health
• The relationship between religion and anxiety in a sample of community-dwelling older adults.  
  Koenig HG, George LK, Blazer DG, Pritchett J, Meador KG, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Religion and anxiety disorder: An examination and comparison of associations in young, middle-aged, and elderly adults.  
  Koenig HG, Ford S, George LK, Blazer DG, Meador KG, Journal of Anxiety Disorders
• Depressive Disorder in Older Medical Inpatients on General Medicine and Cardiology Services at a University Teaching Hospital.  
  Koenig HG, O'Connor C, Guarisco S, Zabel M, Ford S, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Religion as cognitive schema: Comments on H. McIntosh.  
  Koenig HG, International Journal of the Psychology of Religion
• The development of a dysfunctional attitudes scale for medically ill elders.  
  Koenig HG, George LK, Robins CJ, Stangl D, Tweed DL, Clinical Gerontologist
• Religion and older men in prison.  
  Koenig HG, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Use of acute hospital services and mortality among religious and non-religious copers with medical illness.  
  Koenig HG, Journal of Religious Gerontology
• Religion and psychotherapy with older adults.  
  Koenig HG, Larson DB, Matthews D, Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
• Minor depression in late life.  
  Koenig HG, Blazer DG, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
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Books/Book Chapters

• Geriatric Medicine. 
  Chapter: Affective disorders 
  Page 473 - 490Koenig HG, Blazer DGEditors: Walsh JR, Cassel CK, Sorensen L, Riesenberg D.Edition 2,
• Handbook of Mental Health and Aging. 
  Chapter: Mood disorders and suicide (Ch 14) 
  Page 379 - 407Koenig HG, Blazer DGEditors: Birren JE.Academic Press, NY
• Religion and Prevention in Mental Health. 
  Chapter: Religion and prevention of illness in later life 
  Page 69 - 89Koenig HGEditors: K. Pargament, K. Manton, & R. Hess.Haworth Press, NY
• Religion and Mental Health. 
  Chapter: Religion and mental health in later life 
  Page 177 - 188Koenig HGEditors: Schumacher JF.Oxford Press, London
• Practice of Geriatrics. 
  Chapter: Care of the dying 
  Page 144 - 148Koenig HGEditors: E. Calkins.W.B. Saunders Co, NYEdition 2,
• Clinics in Geriatric Medicine. 
  Chapter: Epidemiology of geriatric depression 
  Page 235 - 251Koenig HG, Blazer DGEditors: Alexopolous G.
• Religious Factors in Aging and Health. 
  Chapter: Religion and hope in the disabled elder 
  Page 18 - 52Koenig HGEditors: Levin J.Newbury Park, CA
• Textbook in Psychiatric Epidemiology. 
  Chapter: Epidemiology of geriatric psychiatry 
  Hocking L, Koenig HG, Blazer DGEditors: MT Tsuang et al.John Wiley, NY
• Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry. 
  Chapter: Schizophrenia and paranoid disorders 
  Page 265 - 278Koenig HG, Christianson C, Christianson G, Blazer DGEditors: Busse B, Blazer DG.American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC
• Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry. 
  Chapter: Mood disorders 
  Page 235 - 264Blazer DG, Koenig HGEditors: Busse B, Blazer DG.Am Psychiatric Press, Washington, DCEdition 2,
• Facts and Research in Gerontology. 
  Chapter: Screening for depression in elderly patients 
  Page 35 - 44Koenig HG, Ford SM, Sibert TEEditors: B. Vellas, JL Albarede.Springer Publishing Co, NY
• Aging, Spirituality, & Religion. 
  Chapter: Religion and health in later life 
  Page 1 - 18Koenig HGEditors: Kimble M, McFadden SH, Ellor JW, Seeber JJ.Fortress Press
• Geriatric Medicine. 
  Chapter: Depression, anxiety and other affective disorders 
  Page 949 - 968Koenig HG, Blazer DG, Hocking LBEditors: Cassell CK et al.Springer-Verlag, NYEdition 3,
• Handbook of Neuropsychology and Aging. 
  Chapter: Mood disorders 
  Page 63 - 80Koenig HGEditors: P.D. Nussbaum.Plenum Press, New York
• The Encyclopedia of Aging, II. 
  Chapter: Psychiatric diagnosis and DSM-IV 
  Koenig HG, Frances AEditors: GL Maddox.Springer, NY
• Encyclopedia of Gerontology. 
  Chapter: Depression 
  Koenig HG, Blazer DGEditors: Birren, J.Academic Press, San Diego, CA
• Encyclopedia of Gerontology. 
  Chapter: Suicide 
  Blazer DG, Koenig HGEditors: Birren, J.Academic Press, San Diego, CA
• American College of Physicians' Home Care Guide for Caring for Older Persons. 
  Chapter: Depression 
  Beck DA, Koenig HGEditors: Houts P, Rubenstein L.American College of Physicians, Philadelphia
• Psychiatry and Religion. 
  Chapter: Religion and future psychiatric nosology and treatment 
  Page 169 - 186Koenig HGEditors: Boehnlein JK.American Psychiatric Press, Washington, DC
• Encyclopedia of Mental Health. 
  Chapter: Religion and Mental Health 
  Page 381 - 392Koenig HG, Larson DBEditors: H.S. Friedman.Academic Press, San Diego
• Psycho-oncology. 
  Chapter: Religion, spiritual beliefs, and cancer 
  Page 780 - 789Musick MA, Koenig HG, Larson DB, Matthews DAEditors: Holland J.Oxford University Press, New York
• Geriatric Clinics. 
  Chapter: Depression in the hospitalized medically ill elderly 
  Page 765 - 786Beck DA, Koenig HGEditors: Palmer R.
• Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatric Rehabilitation. 
  Chapter: Research on religion and serious mental illness 
  Page 81 - 96Koenig HG, Larson DB, Weaver AEditors: Fallott RD.Jossey-Bass, Inc, San Francisco
• Perspectives on Spiritual Well-Being and Aging. 
  Chapter: Religion, well-being and health in the elderly: Scientific evidence for an association 
  Page 84 - 97Koenig HGEditors: Thorson JA.
• The Merck Manual of Geriatrics. 
  Chapter: Religion and spirituality 
  Page 145 - 149Koenig HGMerck & Co, Inc, West Point, PAEdition 3,
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Abstracts/Posters

• Religiosity Among Southern Older Adults: A Cluster Analysis.
  Klemmack DL, Roff LL, Parker MW, Koenig HG, Baker P, Allman RM, 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA
• Religiosity and quality of life in older adults An integrative literature review.
  Abdala GA, Kimura M, Koenig H, Horton K, 8th World Congress on Aging and Physical Activity: A Celebration of Diversity and Inclusion, Glasgow, Scotland
• Spiritual, Religious and Psychosocial Correlates of Adherence among African-American HIV-Positive Outpatients.
  Dalmida SG, Koenig HG, Sigma Theta Tau International's 22nd International Nursing Research Congress, Calcun, Mexico
• The influence of religion on brain structure in late life.
  Payne M, Hayward D, Owen A, Koenig HG, Steffen D, International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology, Athens, Greece
• Perpsectives of traditional and allopathic physicians on spirituality and its role in medicine: Basis for development of a spiritual course curriculum for health care ...
  Ramakrishnan, P., Bhat, J., Dias, A., Nagarsekhar A., Rane, A., Jindal, V.N., Azmathul, I. Kuntaman, K., Shukla, A., Lakshmi, S., Ansari, B.K., Ramaswamy, s., Reddy, S..., World Ayurveda Conference, Bangaluru, India
• Predicting the Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among Southern, Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Roles of Religiousness.
  Sun, F., Park, N., Klemmack DL, Roff LL, Parker M, Sawyer P, Allman R, Koenig HG, Gerontological Society of America's 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA
• Religiousness and Trajectories of Pain Intensity Among Community Dwelling Older Adults.
  Park, N, Roff LL, Klemmack DL, Parker M, Koenig HG, Sawyer P, Allman R, Gerontological Society of America's 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA
• For Church and Money: Impact of Religiosity and Socioeconomic Status on Cardiovascular Responses in African American Men.
  Merritt MM, Edwards CL, Koenig HG, Whitfield KA, Bennett GG, et al, American Psychosomatic Society, Chicago, Illinois
• Do Changes in Older Adults' Health Status Result in Changes in Their Religious Behavior?
  Klemmack DL, Allman R, Baker P, Park N, Parker M, Sun F, Roff C, Koenig HG, Sawyer P, Allman RM, 61st Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland
• Religious beliefs and practices have a role in grieving after perinatal loss.
  Cowchock FS, Lasker JN, Toedter L, Skumanich S, Koenig HG, The 4th Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine, Washington, DC
• A survey on the role of religion and spirituality in gynecologic oncologist.
  Ramondetta LM, Johnson AJ, Sun CC, Achanta L, Kavanah JJ, Koenig HG, MASCC International Symposium Supportive Care, Cancer, Houston, TX
• A Non-Linear Role of Religiosity in Cardiovascular Reactivity to Personally-Relevant Stress?
  Merritt MM, Edwards CL, Bennett GG, Koenig HG, 29th Annual Society of Behavioral Med, San Diego, CA
• Religiousness and Pain Among Community-Dwelling, African American Older Adults.
  Park N, Klemmack DL, Parker M, Koenig HG, Sawyer P, Roff LL, Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Religiousness and Longitudinal Trajectories in Elders’ Functional Status and Self-Perceived Health.
  Park NS, Parker MW, Koenig HG, Baker PS, Allman R, The Gerontological Society of America’s 59th Annual Scientific Meeting, Dallas, Texas
• Spiritual, disease, and disability profiles.
  Klemmack DL, Roff LL, Koenig HG, Baker P, Parker MW, Allman RM, 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC
• Church attendance and pain intensity in patients with sickle cell disease.
  Harrison MO, Edwards CL, Koenig HG, Fliu M, Johnson S, Abrams M, Whitworth E, DeCastro L, Wood M, Lynch A Hargrove A, Peak T, 25th Annual Meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Baltimore, MD
• Religion and health in later life.
  Koenig HG, Kvale JN, American Geriatrics Society (AGS)/AFAR Meeting, New Orleans
• Death anxiety, belief in the afterlife and life satisfaction in young adults: Different relationships with religious orientation in Catholics and Protestants.
  Cohen, A.B., Meade, R.M., Chambers, J.A., Pierce, J.D., Jr., Gorvine, B.J. & Koenig, H.G, Integrating Research on Spirituality and Health and Well-Being Into Service Delivery..., Bethesda, MD
• Effects of private religious activity on mortality of elderly disabled and nondisabled adults.
  Helm, H., Hays, J.C., Flint, E., Koenig, H.G., Blazer, DG, Annual American Psychosomatic Society Meeting, Savannah, GA
• Religiosity and pain perception in older adults.
  Friedman, R., Gaughan, J., Weyants, D., Koenig HG, American Academy of Pain Medicine meeting, New Orleans
• Psychosocial and somatic predictors of depression in older medically ill inpatients.
  Schein R, Koenig HG, Gerontological Society of America 52st Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Depression in elderly patients following hospital discharge: A comparison by age group using GEE.
  Kuchibhatla, M., & Koenig, HG, 1998 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Dallas, Tx
• Gender and race effects on the factor structure of the CES-D in older medical inpatients.
  Schein R, Koenig HG, Gerontological Society of America 51st Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
• Prevalence of depressive symptoms in continuing care retirement communities.
  Schein R, Koenig HG, Galanos A, Gerontological Society of America, Cincinatti, OH
• Minor depression in medical inpatients.
  Beck DA, Koenig H, Kudler H, Cohen H, Annual Meeting, Academy of Psychosom Med, San Antonio
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Lectures

• Depression in the Medically Ill Elderly. 
  McGill University, Montreal, Canada, St. Mary's Hospital
• Spirituality and Medical Outcomes. 
  Multiple locations: 1997, 1998, 1999
• Assisted Suicide. 
  National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC
• Faith Development in Later Life. 
  NCOA and NICA
• Minor depression: Threshold of Diagnosis. 
  Late Life Depression, Washington DC
• Use of Religion in Psychotherapy with Older Patients. 
  Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
• Overview of Research on Religion and Health. 
  Bethesda, MD
• Spirituality, Health Promotion, and Disease Promotion in the Elderly. 
  Berkeley, California
• Spirituality as Mode of Adaptation in Old Age. 
  XVth International Congress of Gerontology, Budapest, Hungary
• Religion, Mental Health, and Aging. 
  American Society on Aging, Annual Conference on Religion & Aging, San Francisco, CA
• Religion and well-being in later life. 
  The Third Congress of the International Psychogeriatric Association; 40th Gerontological Society....
• Course of depression and predictors of remission in hospitalized medically ill older patients. 
  Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC
• Depression in Medically Ill Hospitalized Older Adults: Prevalence, Correlates, and Course Based on Six Diagnostic Schemes. 
  9th Annual Meeting, American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, Tucson, AZ
• Religious, social, and environmental influences on health. Symposium organizer. 
  American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore
• Spiritual assessment of older adults in hospital inpatient settings. 
  Bethesda, MD
• Reliability of mental health professional's diagnosis of major depression in medically ill patients. 
  47th Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting
• Religion and prevention of emotional disorder in later life. Abstract published as part of Symposium on Spirituality and Aging. 
  47th Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting, Atlanta, GA
• Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of depression in older persons with physical illness. 
  Presidential Symposium on Mental Health, 47th Gerontological Society of AASM
• Aging and God: The effects of spirituality on health promotion/disease prevention. 
  Health Promotion & Disease Prevention with Older Adults, Conference Pro- ceedings, Oakland, CA
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Other

• Cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of depression in Christian patients with medical illness. 
  Pearce M, Koenig HG, Mental Health, Religion and Culture
  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13674676.2012.718752
• Medicine and religion: Twin healing traditions. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/medicine-and-religion-twin-healing-traditions/
• Physician assisted suicide: Should it be legalized? 
  Koenig HG, CNN World Today
• Faith and healing. 
  Koenig HG, FOX Prime Time News
• Faith and health. 
  Koenig HG, CNN World Today
• The power of prayer. 
  Koenig HG, CBS News This Morning
• Mind, body, and spirit. 
  Koenig HG, NBC Evening News
• Spiritual Interventions in Health Care. 
  Koenig HG, CBS Evening News
  Landsdowne Conference Center, Leesburg, Virginia
• Church Attendance and Health. 
  Koenig HG, Ivanhoe Broadcast News
  Elizabeth Buchanan, Orlando, Florida
• The Power of Prayer to Heal the Sick. 
  Koenig HG, ABC World News Tonight
• Suicide and religion. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/religion-and-suicide/
• Does forgiveness make you healthier? 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/religion-and-forgiveness/
• Religious therapy for depression. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/religious-therapy-for-depression/
• Does religion cause depression? 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/does-religion-cause-depression/
• In a far and distant land. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/in-a-far-and-distant-land-ce-exclusive-from-saudi-arabia/
• Is your shrink anti-religious. Here's why. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/is-your-shrink-anti-religion-heres-why/
• The Evangelizing Patient (invited commentary). 
  Koenig HG, Virtual Mentor (American Medical Association)
  http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/14981.html
• Do religion and compassion go hand-in-hand? 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/do-religion-and-compassion-go-hand-in-hand/
• Big fat believers and the expanding bottom line. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/big-fat-believers-and-the-expanding-bottom-line/
• Got optimism? Studies point to the source. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/got-optimism-studies-point-to-the-source/
• The meaning of life. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/the-meaning-of-life-3/
• Bake the cake before you ice it. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/bake-the-cake-before-you-ice-it/
• Putting the “spirituality” cart before the horse. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/2011/08/04/157007/
• Rx: Religion. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/2011/06/28/155138/
• Religion and medicine: reconcilable differences. 
  Koenig HG, Catholic Exchange
  http://catholicexchange.com/2011/03/22/150120/
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