Perceptions of the Efficacy of Prayer and Conventional Medicine for ...

Previous research has associated prayer practices with positive health outcomes, but few studies have examined: (a) the perceptions of prayer in relation to ...

The current study examines perceptions of the efficacy of prayer in comparison with perceptions of the efficacy of conventional medicine for health concerns.

Perceptions of the Efficacy of Prayer and Conventional Medicine for ...

Conventional medicine was perceived as more effective for alleviating health concerns overall, but participants perceived prayer as most effective when ...

Perceptions of the efficacy of prayer and conventional medicine by...

The results revealed that the children demonstrated a preference for petitioning for physical solutions, rather than biological, psychological, or emotion ...

Perceptions of the Efficacy of Prayer and Conventional Medicine for ...

Richert, R. A., & Saide, A. R. (2018). Religious engagement. Invited chapter to appear in P. Leman (Ed.), The encyclopedia of child and adolescent development.

Prayer for Health Concerns: Results of a National Survey on ...

Rates of prayer and conventional medicine use for 14 common medical conditions are summarized in Table 2. Users of prayer reported high levels of perceived ...

Assessment of Perception, Experience, and Information-seeking ...

The most commonly used CAM as cited by the survey respondents was herbal medicine (210 [52.1%]), followed by meditation/prayer (162 [40.2%]), and dietary ...

Efficacy of prayer - Wikipedia

prayer is the most common complement to mainstream medicine, far outpacing acupuncture, herbs, vitamins and other alternative remedies." In comparison to ...

The effect of prayer on physical health: Experimental evidence

Perceptions of the Efficacy of Prayer and Conventional Medicine for Health Concerns. Article 12 October 2018. Use our pre-submission checklist. Avoid common ...

Prayer for Health Concerns: Results of a National Survey on ...

We examined the frequency of perceived helpful- ness of both prayer and conventional medicine for common medical conditions. We calculated bivariable ...

exploration of attitudes and health perceptions of faith healing users ...

Consumers of faith healing perceived their health status to be good due to the perceived effectiveness of faith healing for curing of health ...

Practice recommendations and referrals, perceptions of efficacy and ...

Many people with mental health problems use a range of complementary medicine (CM), including over the counter products, practices, ...

The Effect of Prayer on Patients' Health: Systematic Literature Review

Prayer is much more than just a resource for promoting "positive religious/spiritual coping with the situation”. It also promotes hope by providing a connection ...

Safety perception and determinants of complementary and ...

Complementary medicine is the care system that is applied together with and in addition to medical care; while alternative medicine includes the ...

Use of Prayer as Complementary Therapy by Christian Adults in the ...

Prayer was one of the most frequently used complementary therapies. 50% of the women using prayer used it for wellbeing. Effectiveness of prayer ...

Opinions and Practices of Medical Rehabilitation Professionals ...

Results: Although the majority of respondents endorsed prayer as a legitimate health care practice, there was greater belief in the benefits of meditation.

Use and perceived effectiveness of complementary health ...

... effectiveness and a preference over conventional medical treatments (9). ... prayer (16/19; 95% CI 82.5% to 96.5%) and acupuncture (6/7; 95 ...

Perceptions about Complementary Therapies Relative to ...

Of 831 respondents who saw a medical doctor and used CAM therapies in the previous 12 months, 79% perceived the combination to be superior to either one alone.

Prayer as medicine: how much have we learned?

The NCCAM examined the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in a population sample of 31 000 people in the US.9 The data showed ...

Praying correlates with higher quality of life: results from a survey on ...

Praying correlates with higher quality of life: results from a survey on complementary/alternative medicine use among a group of Brazilian cancer patients.