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Observational studyJournal of affective disorders2019

Contextual religiosity and the risk of alcohol use disorders and suicidal thoughts among adults in the united states.

Yusuf Ransome, Ashley Perez, Shaila Strayhorn, Stephen E Gilman, David R Williams, Neil Krause

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Observational study in Journal of affective disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yusuf RansomeDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: Yusuf.ransome@yale.edu.
Ashley PerezDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA.
Shaila StrayhornInstitute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
Stephen E GilmanDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Social and Behavioral Sciences Branch, Division of Intramural Population Health Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA; Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
David R WilliamsDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Neil KrauseDepartment of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Harvard University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · USUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

Social determinants of child development and mental healthZIAHD008976 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI GILMAN, STEPHEN · 2018 to 2025
$14.3M
The Brown Initiative in HIV and AIDS Clinical Research for Minority CommunitiesR25MH083620 · NIMH · MIRIAM HOSPITAL · PI NUNN, AMY STEWART · 2008 to 2025
$3.7M
Social Capital and Late HIV Diagnosis in the United StatesK01MH111374 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI RANSOME, YUSUF · 2017 to 2021
$749k
NIMH NIH HHS K01 MH111374NIMH NIH HHS R25 MH083620
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSuicide and alcohol use disorders (AUD) have high public health and economic costs. We investigate the relationship between religious features that are external to the individual (hereafter, contextual religiosity) and individuals' risk of AUD and suicidal thoughts.

methodsData are from Wave 2 of the National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (analytic N = 34,326). Regression analysis assessed whether contextual (i.e., Geographic state) religiosity and membership rates of Catholics and the three major Protestant traditions, are associated with DSM-IV AUD risk in the past 12 months and suicidal thoughts since last interview, controlling for individual and state-level covariates. In a secondary analysis, we test for interactions between individual race/ethnicity and contextual religiosity on the outcomes since prior work suggested differences by race and individual religiosity.

resultsSome contextual religious variables were significantly associated with AUD risk but not suicidal thoughts. Individuals living in a state with higher membership rates of Evangelical Protestant had higher AUD risk (Adjusted Relative Risk [ARR]=1.27, 95%CI=1.08-1.49). Individuals living in states with higher membership rates of Historically Black Protestant had a lower risk of AUD (ARR=0.83, 95% CI=0.72-0.96). The interaction between individual race and contextual-level religious variables on the outcomes were not significant. LIMITATIONS: NESARC is an observational cross-sectional so causality between religiosity and the outcomes cannot be established.

conclusionsThe risk of AUD among individuals varies depending on the religious membership rates among Protestant groups within their geographic state of residence. Contextual religiosity may impact AUD risk above and beyond one's individual religiosity.

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Religion and PsychologySuicidal IdeationAdultAlcohol DrinkingAlcoholismCausalityCross-Sectional StudiesDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersEthnicityFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSocioeconomic FactorsSuicide, AttemptedUnited StatesAlcohol use disordersContextualNESARCReligionSuicide

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