Association of religious service attendance with mortality amongWomen

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 777-785

  Li, Shanshan ^a   Stampfer, Meir J ^a   Williams, David R ^b   Vanderweele, Tyler J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OPTIMISM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIAL SUPPORT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH STATUS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RELIGION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPIRITUALITY; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84973447814     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.1615     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. World Health Organization. WHO definition of health. http://www.who.int/about/definition/en/print.html. Accessed April 7, 2016.
2. Balboni MJ, Puchalski CM, Peteet JR. The relationship between medicine, spirituality and religion: Three models for integration. J Relig Health. 2014;53(5):1586-1598.
3. Koenig HG. Faith &Mental Health. Philadelphia, PA: Templeton Foundation Press; 2005.
4. Koenig H, King DE, Benner V. Handbook of Religion and Health. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2012.
5. Puchalski CM, Blatt B, Kogan M, Butler A. Spirituality and health: The development of a field. Acad Med. 2014;89(1):10-16.
6. Puchalski CM, Vitillo R, Hull SK, Reller N. Improving the spiritual dimension of whole person care: Reaching national and international consensus. J Palliat Med. 2014;17(6):642-656.
7. Crabtree S, Pelham B. What Alabamians and Iranians have in common; a global perspective on Americans' religiosity offers a few surprises. Gallup Poll News Service. https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-193998914.html. Published February 9, 2009. Accessed April 8, 2016. Gallup Poll News Service; 2009.
8. Franck R, Iannaccone L. Religious decline in the 20th centuryWest: Testing alternative explanations. Public Choice. 2014;159(3-4):385-414. doi:10.1007/s11127-013-0103-9.
9. Lucchetti G, Lucchetti AL, Koenig HG. Impact of spirituality/religiosity on mortality: comparison with other health interventions. Explore (NY). 2011;7(4): 234-238.
10. McCullough ME, Hoyt WT, Larson DB, Koenig HG, Thoresen C. Religious involvement and mortality: Ameta-analytic review. Health Psychol. 2000;19(3):211-222.
11. Hall DE. Religious attendance: more cost-effective than Lipitor? J AmBoard Fam Med. 2006;19(2):103-109.
12. Larson DB, Larson SS, Koenig HG. Mortality and religion/spirituality: A brief review of the research. Ann Pharmacother. 2002;36(6):1090-1098.
13. Sloan RP, Bagiella E, VandeCreek L, et al. Should physicians prescribe religious activities? N Engl J Med. 2000;342(25):1913-1916.
14. Sloan RP, Bagiella E, Powell T. Religion, spirituality, and medicine. Lancet. 1999;353(9153): 664-667.
15. Denberg T. Religious attendance: more cost-effective than Lipitor? J AmBoard Fam Med. 2006;19(4):430.
16. Koenig HG, Idler E, Kasl S, et al. Religion, spirituality, and medicine: A rebuttal to skeptics. Int J Psychiatry Med. 1999;29(2):123-131.
17. Van der Weele TJ. Unmeasured confounding and hazard scales: sensitivity analysis for total, direct, and indirect effects. Eur J Epidemiol. 2013;28(2): 113-117.
18. Dupre ME, Franzese AT, Parrado EA. Religious attendance and mortality: implications for the black-white mortality crossover. Demography. 2006;43(1):141-164.
19. Strawbridge WJ, Cohen RD, Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. Frequent attendance at religious services and mortality over 28 years. Am J Public Health. 1997;87 (6):957-961.
20. Ellison CG, Hummer RA, Cormier S, Rogers RG. Religious involvement and mortality risk among African American adults. Res Aging. 2000;22(6): 630-677. doi:10.1177/0164027500226003.
21. Colditz GA, Hankinson SE. The Nurses' Health Study: lifestyle and health among women. Nat Rev Cancer. 2005;5(5):388-396.
22. Rich-Edwards JW, Corsano KA, Stampfer MJ. Test of the national death index and Equifax nationwide death search. Am J Epidemiol. 1994;140 (11):1016-1019.
23. Chiuve SE, Sampson L, Willett WC. The association between a nutritional quality index and risk of chronic disease. Am J Prev Med. 2011;40(5): 505-513.
24. Sun Q, Townsend MK, Okereke OI, et al. Alcohol consumption atmidlife and successful ageing in women: A prospective cohort analysis in the Nurses' Health Study. PLoS Med. 2011;8(9): E1001090.
25. Ware JE Jr, Sherbourne CD. The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36): I: conceptual framework and item selection. Med Care. 1992;30 (6):473-483.
26. Berkman LF, Syme SL. Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: A nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents. Am J Epidemiol. 1979;109(2):186-204.
27. Andresen EM, Malmgren JA, Carter WB, Patrick DL. Screening for depression in well older adults: Evaluation of a short form of the CES-D (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale). Am J Prev Med. 1994;10(2):77-84.
28. Burgess PM, Mazzocco L, Campbell IM. Discriminant validity of the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index. Br J Med Psychol. 1987;60(pt 1): 61-69.
29. Hernán MA, Brumback B, Robins JM. Marginal structural models to estimate the causal effect of zidovudine on the survival of HIV-positive men. Epidemiology. 2000;11(5):561-570.
30. Robins JM, Hernán MÁ, Brumback B. Marginal structural models and causal inference in epidemiology. Epidemiology. 2000;11(5):550-560.
31. Knol MJ, Van der Weele TJ, Groenwold RH, Klungel OH, Rovers MM, Grobbee DE. Estimating measures of interaction on an additive scale for preventive exposures. Eur J Epidemiol. 2011;26(6): 433-438.
32. Van der Weele TJ, Vansteelandt S. Invited commentary: some advantages of the relative excess risk due to interaction (RERI)-towards better estimators of additive interaction. Am J Epidemiol. 2014;179(6):670-671.
33. Van der Weele T. Explanation in Causal Inference: Methods for Mediation and Interaction. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2015.
34. Valeri L, VanderWeele TJ. SAS macro for causal mediation analysis with survival data. Epidemiology. 2015;26(2):e23-e24.
35. Zucker DM. Restricted mean life with covariates: modification and extension of a useful survival analysismethod. J AmStat Assoc. 1998;93 (442):702-709. doi:10.1080/01621459.1998.10473722.
36. Ding P, VanderWeele T. Sensitivity analysis without assumptions [published online February 1, 2016]. Epidemiology.
37. Hill PL, Turiano NA. Purpose in life as a predictor of mortality across adulthood. Psychol Sci. 2014;25(7):1482-1486.
38. Levin JS, Larson DB, Puchalski CM. Religion and spirituality in medicine: Research and education. JAMA. 1997;278(9):792-793.
39. Matthews DA, McCullough ME, Larson DB, Koenig HG, Swyers JP, Milano MG. Religious commitment and health status: A review of the research and implications for family medicine. Arch Fam Med. 1998;7(2):118-124.
40. Koenig HG. Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science & Spirituality Meet. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press; 2008.
41. Levin JS. Religion and health: is there an association, is it valid, and is it causal? Soc Sci Med. 1994;38(11):1475-1482.
42. Hummer RA, Rogers RG, Nam CB, Ellison CG. Religious involvement and US adult mortality. Demography. 1999;36(2):273-285.
43. Oman D, Reed D. Religion and mortality among the community-dwelling elderly. Am J Public Health. 1998;88(10):1469-1475.
44. Idler EL, Musick MA, Ellison CG, et al. Measuring multiple dimensions of religion and spirituality for health research: conceptual background and findings from the 1998 General Social Survey. Res Aging. 2003;25(4):327-365. doi:10.1177/0164027503025004001.
45. Hill PC, Pargament KI. Advances in the conceptualization and measurement of religion and spirituality: implications for physical and mental health research. Am Psychol. 2003;58(1):64-74.
46. Hadaway CK, Marler PL, Chaves M. What the polls don't show-a closer look at United States church attendance. Am Sociol Rev. 1993;58(6):741- 752. doi:10.2307/2095948.
47. Presser S, Stinson L. Data collection mode and social desirability bias in self-reported religious attendance. Am Sociol Rev. 1998;63(1):137-145.
48. Chaves M. American Religion: Contemporary Trends. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; 2011.
49. Rothman KJ. Modern Epidemiology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA:Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams &Wilkins; 2008.
50. Musick MA, House JS, Williams DR. Attendance at religious services and mortality in a national sample. J Health Soc Behav. 2004;45(2):198-213.