Religion and survival among European older adults.
There are several pathways through which religion can affect longevity. Previous research, predominately from North America, has shown decreased mortality risk for participants that attended religious services. This study aims to examine the association between religion and all-cause mortality in a...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Ageing Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 13 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=173351833&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 173351833 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 16139372 3RAL jtl: European Journal of Ageing issn: 16139372 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar2023 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 173351833 10.1007/s10433-023-00789-4 ppf: 1 ppct: 12 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 842KB tig: atl: Religion and survival among European older adults. aug: au: Christopoulos, Konstantinos affil: https://ror.org/02qs84g94 University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Street, 185 34, Piraeus, Greece keyword: Longevity Mortality Religiousness SHARE Survival analysis Longevity Mortality Religiousness SHARE Survival analysis ab: There are several pathways through which religion can affect longevity. Previous research, predominately from North America, has shown decreased mortality risk for participants that attended religious services. This study aims to examine the association between religion and all-cause mortality in a large sample of older European adults, comparing religious affiliations, and using prayer frequency as well as frequency of participation in a religious organisation as measures of religiousness. To this end, a total of 16,062 participants from the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe were employed for a survival analysis (median follow-up 11.3 years; 3790 recorded deaths). Following a religion was negatively associated with mortality regardless of demographic and socioeconomic factors (HR = 0.81; 95% CI 0.74–0.89). Large differences in the median survival of participants from different religious affiliations can be mostly attributed to demographic and socioeconomic factors. Both frequency of prayer and religious participation exhibited a significant positive dose–response relationship with survival despite adjustments, although the results for religious participation were more profound. Changes on the religiosity levels of the European population will require additional research on the subject in the future. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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