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Which Saint to pray for fighting against a Covid infection? A short survey

BACKGROUND: In the absence of a treatment still considered universally effective, and of a vaccine validated by the health authorities, we wanted to know which Catholic saint the European Christian community turned to in the event of infection with Covid-19 to request a miraculous healing. METHODOLO...

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Autores principales: Perciaccante, A., Coralli, A., Charlier, P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33969167
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2021.100674
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description BACKGROUND: In the absence of a treatment still considered universally effective, and of a vaccine validated by the health authorities, we wanted to know which Catholic saint the European Christian community turned to in the event of infection with Covid-19 to request a miraculous healing. METHODOLOGY: An online survey was carried out on a sample of 1158 adults using social media tools. RESULTS: All results are presented in this research, with a few saints in the majority, and some dictated by the symptomatology of the Covid-19 infection or the personalities of certain « doctor guru ». CONCLUSION: This medico-anthropological study is revealing the psychology of Western patients vis-à-vis the magic-religious means used in the fight against diseases, particularly in the epidemic/pandemic context.
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spelling pubmed-80881222021-05-03 Which Saint to pray for fighting against a Covid infection? A short survey Perciaccante, A. Coralli, A. Charlier, P. Ethics Med Public Health Short Report BACKGROUND: In the absence of a treatment still considered universally effective, and of a vaccine validated by the health authorities, we wanted to know which Catholic saint the European Christian community turned to in the event of infection with Covid-19 to request a miraculous healing. METHODOLOGY: An online survey was carried out on a sample of 1158 adults using social media tools. RESULTS: All results are presented in this research, with a few saints in the majority, and some dictated by the symptomatology of the Covid-19 infection or the personalities of certain « doctor guru ». CONCLUSION: This medico-anthropological study is revealing the psychology of Western patients vis-à-vis the magic-religious means used in the fight against diseases, particularly in the epidemic/pandemic context. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021-09 2021-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8088122/ /pubmed/33969167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2021.100674 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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