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Dr. Young’s various projects are five-time winners of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Award for Outstanding Work in Community Health Promotion. His drug education program, Keep A Clear Mind, authored with Chudley Werch, is a winner of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s (CSAP) Exemplary Program Award. It has also been promoted as a Model Program by CSAP, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and is on the National Registry of Effective Programs. He has received a number of other awards from professional organizations and institutions.  \nYoung M. Religiosity and health behavior—what does research tell us? Am J Health Educ. 2011;42(1):4-11. This paper was submitted to the Journal on July 31, 2010, revised and accepted for publication on September 16, 2010.  \nOne of the nice things about giving a scholar lecture is you are able to talk about whatever you want. That is also what makes it difficult, because it requires a choice. You can talk about anything you choose, but because of time limitations you can’t talk about everything you might want to choose.  \nMy first instinct was to go with my favorite topic. Like several other people you probably know, my favorite topic is “me.” I decided that while this topic would be quite fun for me, it might not be quite as enjoyable for you.  \nIn other forums, I’ve had the opportunity to talk about research related to abstinence education,1 to encourage increased research productivity2 and to address the challenges in developing public school-university research partnerships.3 For this talk, I did not want to simply recycle an earlier presentation, but rather to talk about another aspect of my work.  \nI thought about a conversation many years ago with a couple of faculty members regarding external funding. They said it was easy forme to get grant money because there  \nwas lots of funding available in my interest areas – drug education and abstinence/ sexuality education. There was little money available in their areas of interest. Itold them that those were not my primary interest areas, but they were areas where I thought I could get funding and do some good work. When they asked what my real interest was, I told them that if I could study anything I wanted, and money was not an issue, I would be doing research in religiosity and health behavior – probably dealing more with  \nsexual behavior than anything else.  \nAt that time, no one seemed to be funding this type of research, but I still managed to make it a part, if not the focus, of a number of different studies. Today, funding agencies have a much greater interest in religiosity and health behavior. For example, NIH has a program announcement titled“The influence of religiosity and spirituality on health risk behaviors in children and adolescents.”4 One of the John Templeton Foundation’s current priorities is funding projects that attempt to answer the question“How does spirituality promote health?”As  \na part of this overall question, the Foundation is interested in projects that address the role of religion and religious involvement, if any, in impacting health or impacting the aging process.5  \nThe role of religion in health behavior has been an area of interest for me for sometime. I have a number of publications that address some of the issues, and decided this lecture would be the perfect opportunity to talk about the area. Thus, the topic for this Scholar Lecture is “Religiosity and health behavior – what does the research tell us?”First, we will talk about some of the challenges involved in conducting research in this area. Next, we will take a look at wha","cbCaiaWISdlFBnnX","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaWISdlFBnnX","pdf",125881,"English","# Research Consortium Scholar Lecture 2010\n## Religiosity and Health Behavior—What Does Research Tell Us?\n## Challenges in Conducting Research Related to Religiosity and Health Behavior","[{\"question\":\"What is the central question of the lecture?\",\"answer\":\"The lecture centers on what research tells us about the relationship between religiosity and health behavior.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the speaker mention difficulties in giving a scholar lecture?\",\"answer\":\"He explains that choosing a topic is challenging because time limitations prevent covering everything he might want to discuss.\"},{\"question\":\"What are key challenges in studying religiosity and health behavior?\",\"answer\":\"A major challenge is measuring religiosity, since many instruments exist yet many studies rely on single items such as religious affiliation or worship attendance frequency.\"}]","Religiosity and Health Behavior—What Does Research Tell Us? | PDF"]