Healio (5/7, Gramigna) reports, “Frequent religious service attendance appeared associated with lower risk for death from despair among health care professionals,” researchers concluded after analyzing “data from self-reported questionnaires and medical records of 66,492 female registered nurses included in the Nurses’ Healthy Study II…from 2001 through 2017” and the “data of 43,141 male health care professionals, such as dentists, pharmacists, osteopaths, podiatrists, optometrists and veterinarians, included in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study…from 1988 through 2014.” The findings of the “population-based cohort study” were published online May 6 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Related Links:
— “Religious service attendance linked to significantly lower risk for death from despair, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, May 7, 2020