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Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden
AIMS: The aim is to investigate associations between attendance in religious service during the past year and all-cause, cardiovascular (CVD), cancer and other cause mortality. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. METHODS: A public health survey with three reminders was sent to a stratified rando...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10458674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37635991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101492 |
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author | Lindström, Martin Pirouzifard, Mirnabi |
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description | AIMS: The aim is to investigate associations between attendance in religious service during the past year and all-cause, cardiovascular (CVD), cancer and other cause mortality. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. METHODS: A public health survey with three reminders was sent to a stratified random sample of the adult 18–80 population in southernmost Sweden in 2008. The response rate was 54.1%, and 24,855 participants were included in this study. The cross-sectional baseline survey was connected to mortality data with 8.3-year follow-up. Analyses were conducted in Cox regression models. RESULTS: 13.9% had attended religious service at least once during the past year, and 86.1% had not attended. The group with religious attendance contained significantly higher proportions of women, high and medium position non-manual employees, participants born abroad, never alcohol consumers, respondents with high trust in others and respondents with high social participation. It also contained significantly lower proportions with low leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and daily smokers. Religious service attendance during the past year was significantly associated with lower hazard rate ratios (HRRs) of all-cause mortality compared to non-attendance until social participation items were introduced in the final model. HRRs of CVD mortality were significantly lower for religious attendance in the multiple models until BMI and health-related behaviors were introduced. No significant results were observed for cancer and other cause mortality. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that religious service attendance in a highly secularized country such as Sweden is significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality, which may be explained by a social network pathway in this highly secularized population. |
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spelling | pubmed-104586742023-08-27 Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden Lindström, Martin Pirouzifard, Mirnabi SSM Popul Health Regular Article AIMS: The aim is to investigate associations between attendance in religious service during the past year and all-cause, cardiovascular (CVD), cancer and other cause mortality. STUDY DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. METHODS: A public health survey with three reminders was sent to a stratified random sample of the adult 18–80 population in southernmost Sweden in 2008. The response rate was 54.1%, and 24,855 participants were included in this study. The cross-sectional baseline survey was connected to mortality data with 8.3-year follow-up. Analyses were conducted in Cox regression models. RESULTS: 13.9% had attended religious service at least once during the past year, and 86.1% had not attended. The group with religious attendance contained significantly higher proportions of women, high and medium position non-manual employees, participants born abroad, never alcohol consumers, respondents with high trust in others and respondents with high social participation. It also contained significantly lower proportions with low leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and daily smokers. Religious service attendance during the past year was significantly associated with lower hazard rate ratios (HRRs) of all-cause mortality compared to non-attendance until social participation items were introduced in the final model. HRRs of CVD mortality were significantly lower for religious attendance in the multiple models until BMI and health-related behaviors were introduced. No significant results were observed for cancer and other cause mortality. CONCLUSIONS: The results suggest that religious service attendance in a highly secularized country such as Sweden is significantly associated with lower all-cause mortality, which may be explained by a social network pathway in this highly secularized population. Elsevier 2023-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10458674/ /pubmed/37635991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101492 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Regular Article Lindström, Martin Pirouzifard, Mirnabi Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden |
title | Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden |
title_full | Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden |
title_fullStr | Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden |
title_full_unstemmed | Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden |
title_short | Religious service attendance and mortality: A population-based prospective cohort study in southern Sweden |
title_sort | religious service attendance and mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study in southern sweden |
topic | Regular Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10458674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37635991 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101492 |
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