Religious vs. conventional cognitive behavioral therapy for major depression in persons with chronic medical illness:...

Harold G Koenig¹, Michelle J Pearce, Bruce Nelson+13

• ¹*Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and †Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; ‡Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; §Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University, Durham, NC; ∥School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, People's Republic of China; ¶School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore; #Department of Research, Glendale Adventist Medical Center, CA; **Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; ††Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Population Medicine, School of Public Health, and ‡‡Allied Health Studies, School of Allied Health Professions, Loma Linda University, CA; §§Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; ∥∥Department of Pathology and Human Anatomy, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, CA; ¶¶Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, OH; ##Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA; ***Department of Psychiatry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; †††Department of Psychology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute; ‡‡‡Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY; and §§§Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK.