Prayer Attendance and General Health in the Iranian Adult Urban Population

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between prayer attendance and general health among adult urban population in Iran. A total of 470 males older than 17 years, chosen by multistage sampling, were investigated. The results showed that people who did not perform prayers compared to...

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1. VerfasserIn: Sotodehasl, Nemat (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Ghorbani, Raheb (BeteiligteR) ; Mahdavi-Nejad, Gholamhosein (BeteiligteR) ; Haji-Aghajani, Saeed (BeteiligteR) ; Mehdizadeh, Jamileh (BeteiligteR)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2016]
In: Journal of religion and health
Jahr: 2016, Band: 55, Heft: 1, Seiten: 110-118
RelBib Classification:BJ Islam
NCH Medizinische Ethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B General Health
B Iranian population
B Pray
B Prayer attendance
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Zusammenfassung:This study was conducted to determine the relationship between prayer attendance and general health among adult urban population in Iran. A total of 470 males older than 17 years, chosen by multistage sampling, were investigated. The results showed that people who did not perform prayers compared to those who said prayers on time and performed Nafilahs (supererogatory prayers) were 2.87 (OR 2.87, 95 % CI 1.23-6.70, p = 0.015) times at risk of general health problems. In conclusion, the findings show that increasing the degree of people’s belief in prayer can lead to improve general health.
ISSN:1573-6571
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-014-9980-6