Causal effects of religious service attendance?

What it found

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The trial behind it

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Religiosity and Adherence to Pharmacotherapy for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among the Elderly in Primary Healthcare Centres in Brazil.Journal of religion and health · 2026
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2. Health trajectories of individuals who quit active religious attendance: analysis of four prospective cohort studies in the United States.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024
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3. Religiosity, Psychological Distress, and Well-Being: Evaluating Familial Confounding With Multicohort Sibling Data.American journal of epidemiology · 2022
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4. Religion and Health Behaviors in Primary Care Patients.Korean journal of family medicine · 2020
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5. The prevalence of religiosity and association between religiosity and alcohol use, other drug use, and risky sexual behaviours among grade 8-10 learners in Western Cape, South Africa.PloS one · 2019
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6. On Well-defined Hypothetical Interventions in the Potential Outcomes Framework.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018
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7. Absent Relations of Religious Coping to Telomere Length in African American and White Women and Men.Experimental aging research
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8. Relationship between religiosity and smoking among undergraduate health sciences students.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy
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Corrections and comments

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  Commentary: on the application of potential outcomes-based methods to questions in social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.2017

Authors and funding

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Abstract

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