ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2008
Church attendance and new episodes of major depression in a community study of older adults: the Cache County Study.
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- Causal effects of religious service attendance?Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2017Article
- Religiousness and health in Europe.European journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
- Causal inference and longitudinal data: a case study of religion and mental health.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Review
- Psychiatric disease incidence among Danish Seventh-day Adventists and Baptists.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2013Article
- Religious attendance and social adjustment as protective against depression: a 10-year prospective study.Journal of affective disorders · 2013Article
- Religious service attendance and major depression: a case of reverse causality?American journal of epidemiology · 2012Article
- Lifestyle behavior pattern is associated with different levels of risk for incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease: the Cache County study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2012Article
- Clergy-laity support and patients' mood during serious illness: a cross-sectional epidemiologic study.Palliative & supportive care · 2011Article
- Complementary and alternative medicine use for treatment and prevention of late-life mood and cognitive disorders.Aging health · 2009Article
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Abstract
We examined the relation between church attendance, membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), and major depressive episode, in a population-based study of aging and dementia in Cache County, Utah. Participants included 2,989 nondemented individuals aged between 65 and 100 years who were interviewed initially in 1995 to 1996 and again in 1998 to 1999. LDS church members reported twice the rate of major depression that non-LDS members did (odds ratio = 2.56, 95% confidence interval = 1.07-6.08). Individuals attending church weekly or more often had a significantly lower risk for major depression. After controlling for demographic and health variables and the strongest predictor of future episodes of depression, a prior depression history, we found that church attendance more often than weekly remained a significant protectant (odds ratio = 0.51, 95% confidence interval = 0.28-0.92). Results suggest that there may be a threshold of church attendance that is necessary for a person to garner long-term protection from depression. We discuss sociological factors relevant to LDS culture.
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