Prayer Treatment Report
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See also: Anointing and prayer by others, Faith, Prayer/meditation
What is Prayer?
Prayer is an active effort to communicate with a deity or spirit either to offer praise, to make a request, seek guidance, confess sins, or simply to express one's thoughts and emotions. The words of the prayer may either be a set hymn or incantation, or a spontaneous utterance.
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Reasons Taken
336 patients in the community are taking or have taken Prayer.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 164 | 56% |
| General health | 76 | 26% |
| Slow my ALS progress | 28 | 9% |
| Treat Parkinson's | 8 | 2% |
| Slow my MS progress | 5 | 1% |
| Anxiety | 5 | 1% |
| Don't know | 3 | 1% |
| Emotional lability | 1 | <1% |
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | <1% |
| 0 hr day | 0 min day | 0 day | 0 min none | 0 none | 0.05 hr day | 0.1 hr day | 0.2 hr day | 0.25 hr day | 2 hr week | 0.5 hr day | 1 hr day | 1.5 hr day | 2 hr day | 3 hr day | 5 min day | 8 hr day | 10 hr day | 12 hr day | 15 min day | 16 hr day | 20 hr day | 24 hr day | 30 min day | 200 hr day | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been taking Prayer or how long patients were taking Prayer before stopping.