Praying for People You Know Predicts Survival over 17 Years Among People Living with HIV in the U.S.

Most studies predicting the effects of prayer on health have examined intercessory prayer (prayers by others who often don’t know you), yet most people pray for their own health and the health of others who they know. Our study, conducted in Miami, USA, differentiated praying for self, known others,...

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Autores principales: Ironson, Gail, Ahmad, Salman Shaheen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9398051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35999335
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01622-5
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description Most studies predicting the effects of prayer on health have examined intercessory prayer (prayers by others who often don’t know you), yet most people pray for their own health and the health of others who they know. Our study, conducted in Miami, USA, differentiated praying for self, known others, and unknown others in people living with HIV, a virus with clearly defined biological markers of progression, enabling control for initial CD4-count and viral load. Only praying for known others predicted greater survival. People with HIV who prayed for known others were twice as likely to survive over 17 years compared to those who did not.
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spelling pubmed-93980512022-08-24 Praying for People You Know Predicts Survival over 17 Years Among People Living with HIV in the U.S. Ironson, Gail Ahmad, Salman Shaheen J Relig Health Original Paper Most studies predicting the effects of prayer on health have examined intercessory prayer (prayers by others who often don’t know you), yet most people pray for their own health and the health of others who they know. Our study, conducted in Miami, USA, differentiated praying for self, known others, and unknown others in people living with HIV, a virus with clearly defined biological markers of progression, enabling control for initial CD4-count and viral load. Only praying for known others predicted greater survival. People with HIV who prayed for known others were twice as likely to survive over 17 years compared to those who did not. Springer US 2022-08-23 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9398051/ /pubmed/35999335 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01622-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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