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Religious Attendance and Cause of Death over 31 Years

Oman, Doug, Kurata, John H., Strawbridge, William J., Cohen, Richard D.·2002·The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
DOI 10.2190/rjy7-crr1-hcw5-xveg
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Objective: Frequent attendance at religious services has been reported by several studies to be independently associated with lower all-cause mortality. The present study aimed to clarify relationships between religious attendance and mortality by examining how associations of religious attendance with several specific causes of death may be explained by demographics, socioeconomic status, health status, health behaviors, and social connections. Method: Associations between frequent religious attendance and major types of cause-specific mortality between 1965 and 1996 were examined for 6545 residents of Alameda County, California. Sequential proportional hazards regressions were used to study survival time until mortality from circulatory, cancer, digestive, respiratory, or external causes. Results: After adjusting for age and sex, infrequent (never or less than weekly) attenders had significantly higher rates of circulatory, cancer, digestive, and respiratory mortality ( p < 0.05), but not mortality due to external causes. Differences in cancer mortality were explained by prior health status. Associations with other outcomes were weakened but not eliminated by including health behaviors and prior health status. In fully adjusted models, infrequent attenders had significantly or marginally significantly higher rates of death from circulatory (relative hazard [RH] = 1.21, 95 percent confidence interval [CI] = 1.02 to 1.45), digestive (RH = 1.99, p < 0.10, 95 percent CI = 0.98 to 4.03), and respiratory (RH = 1.66, p < 0.10, 95 percent CI = 0.92 to 3.02) mortality. Conclusions: These results are consistent with the view that religious involvement, like high socioeconomic status, is a general protective factor that promotes health through a variety of causal pathways. Further study is needed to determine whether the independent effects of religion are mediated by psychological states or other unknown factors.

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  • Evidence from rigorously designed population studies and a seminal meta-analysis suggested an independent association between organizational religiosity (religious service attendance) and CVD mortality.

    “The evidence from rigorously designed population studies and from a seminal meta-analysis suggested the existence of an independent association between organizational religiosity (i.e., religious service attendance) and CVD mortality (Chida et al., 2009; Hummer et al., 1999; Oman et al., 2002).”

    From Advancing our understanding of religion and spirituality in the context of behavioral medicine (2017) · cites this paper as Oman et al., 2002

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Authors
Oman, D., Kurata, J. H., Strawbridge, W. J., & Cohen, R. D.
Affiliations
  • Human Population Laboratory (US)
  • California Health and Human Services Agency (US)
Corresponding author
Oman, Doug
ORCID
Oman, Doug
Venue
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2002-03
Volume
32
Issue
1
Pages
69-89
ISSN
  • 0033-278X (ISSN-L)
  • 0091-2174
  • 1541-3527
DOI
10.2190/rjy7-crr1-hcw5-xveg
OpenAlex
W1993055876
Cited by
189
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 10
FWCI
8.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute on Aging (R37AG011375, 1R37 AG-11375)
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (T32 HL07365-21, T32HL007365)
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, cause-specific mortality, circulatory disease mortality, cancer mortality, respiratory mortality, socioeconomic status, health behavior, social connectedness, health status, religion and health
MeSH terms
Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Status, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, Religion, Sex Factors, Social Behavior

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