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Religion and mortality among the community-dwelling elderly.

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Oman, D, Reed, D·1998·American Journal of Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: This study analyzed the prospective association between attending religious services and all-cause mortality to determine whether the association is explainable by 6 confounding factors: demographics, health status, physical functioning, health habits, social functioning and support, and psychological state. METHODS: The association between self-reported religious attendance and subsequent mortality over 5 years for 1931 older residents of Marin County, California, was examined by proportional hazards regression. Interaction terms of religion with social support were used to explore whether other forms of social support could substitute for religion and diminish its protective effect. RESULTS: Persons who attended religious services had lower mortality than those who did not (age- and sex-adjusted relative hazard [RH] = 0.64; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.52, 0.78). Multivariate adjustment reduced this relationship only slightly (RH = 0.76; 95% CI = 0.62, 0.94), primarily by including physical functioning and social support. Contrary to hypothesis, religious attendance tended to be slightly more protective for those with high social support. CONCLUSIONS: Lower mortality rates for those who attend religious services are only partly explained by the 6 possible confounders listed above. Psychodynamic and other explanations need further investigation.

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Authors: Oman, D., & Reed, D.
Affiliations: Buck Institute for Research on Aging (US)
ORCID: Oman, D
Venue: American Journal of Public Health
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Published: 1998-10
Volume: 88
Issue: 10
Pages: 1469-1475
ISSN: 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.88.10.1469
PMC: PMC1508463
OpenAlex: W2035699317
Cited by: 350
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 10 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 11
FWCI: 15.15
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Locations: American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
Keywords: religious service attendance, mortality, older adults, community-dwelling older adults, social support, physical function, health status, health habits, psychological state, confounding factors, Marin County
MeSH terms: Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, California, Female, Health Status, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, Prospective Studies, Religion, Religion and Medicine, Religion and Psychology, Social Support, Health Behavior, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Proportional Hazards Models

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