{"id":1085,"date":"2008-11-25T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2008\/11\/study-suggests-worship-service.php"},"modified":"2008-11-25T17:58:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:58:56","slug":"study-suggests-worship-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2008\/11\/study-suggests-worship-service","title":{"rendered":"Study Suggests Worship Services Reduces Risk of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (RNS) Regularly attending religious services may significantly reduce the risk of death, according to a comprehensive study by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.<br \/>\nFindings of the study were published in Psychology and Health, the official journal of the European Health Psychology Society.<br \/>\nIn the study, researchers evaluated the religious practices of 92,395 post-menopausal women from a wide variety of faiths participating in the Women&#8217;s Health Initiative (WHI), a national long-term study on women&#8217;s health issues.<br \/>\nThe study subjects who said they attend religious services at least once a week showed a 20 percent decrease in the overall risk of mortality compared with those not attending services at all.<br \/>\nThe participants, aged 50 to 79, were asked how often they attend services, about their religious affiliation and whether they derive comfort from religious practices.<br \/>\nThe YU\/Einstein study adjusted for the social support many derive from participation in communal organizations and group activities linked to a church, a synagogue, temple or mosque.<br \/>\n&#8220;What was fascinating was that even after controlling for those sorts of factors that lead to well-being, there was a significant reduction in mortality,&#8221; said co-lead researcher Dr. Eliezer Schnall, clinical assistant professor of psychology at Yeshiva University. It would be &#8220;worthwhile,&#8221; Schnall said, to study men and younger people to determine their risk of mortality.<br \/>\nSchnall&#8217;s partner in the study, Dr. Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, professor of epidemiology and population health at Einstein, said the natural next step &#8220;is to figure out how the effect of religiosity is translated into biological mechanisms that affect rates of survival.<br \/>\nHowever, we do not infer causation even from a prospective study, as that can only be done through a clinical trial,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n<em>By Michele Chabin<br \/>\nCopyright 2008 Religion News Service.  All rights reserved.  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