Prayer for Health Concerns

National Trends in Prayer Use as a Coping Mechanism for Health Concerns: Changes From 2002 to 2007

The objective of this research was to analyze national trends in the use of prayer to cope with health concerns. Data are from the Alternative Medicine Supplement of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2002 (N 30,080) and 2007 (N 22,306). We categorized prayer use into 3 groups: never prayed, prayed in the past 12 months, and did not pray in the past 12 months. Chi-square tests and mult...

From efficacy to safety concerns: a STEP forward or a step back for clinical research and intercessory prayer? The Study of Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP).

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Oral health concerns for older adults.

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Pediatric Mental Health Concerns.

Prayer for health and primary care: results from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Prayer for health (PFH) is common; in 2002, 35% of US adults prayed for their health. We examined the relationship of PFH and primary care visits, with a special focus on African American women, using data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). METHODS We used chi-square analyses to compare the demographic (age group, gender, race, region, marital sta...