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Prayer Treatment Report
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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| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 250 | 29% |
| General health | 172 | 20% |
| comfort issue | 81 | 9% |
| spiritual enlightenment | 63 | 7% |
| Slow my ALS progress | 42 | 5% |
| Anxiety | 19 | 2% |
| Support another treatment | 15 | 1% |
| Slow my MS progress | 10 | 1% |
| Emotional lability | 8 | <1% |
| Treat Parkinson's | 8 | <1% |
Other treatments patients are using for Other include Walking Stick/Cane, MRI, and Levothyroxine.
| 0.5minutes as needed | 0other as needed | 10000000hours as needed | 1000000 other all the time (24/7) | 1000000other as needed | 100hours as needed | 100 hr all the time (24/7) | 100 intl units all the time (24/7) | 100 min all the time (24/7) | 100 other all the time (24/7) | 100other as needed | 10 min all the time (24/7) | 10 min as needed | 10minutes as needed | 10 other all the time (24/7) | 1440 min all the time (24/7) | 15 min all the time (24/7) | 15minutes as needed | 1hours as needed | 1 hr all the time (24/7) | 1 min all the time (24/7) | 1minutes as needed | 1 other all the time (24/7) | 1other as needed | 20 min all the time (24/7) | 20minutes as needed | 24hours as needed | 24 hr all the time (24/7) | 25minutes as needed | 2 hr as needed | 2 intl units all the time (24/7) | 2minutes as needed | 30 min all the time (24/7) | 30 min as needed | 30minutes as needed | 3minutes as needed | 40 min all the time (24/7) | 40minutes as needed | 45 min all the time (24/7) | 500 hr all the time (24/7) | 5 min all the time (24/7) | 5minutes as needed | 60 min all the time (24/7) | 7 other all the time (24/7) | 99999999 min all the time (24/7) | all the time (24/7) | as needed | daily | 0.1 hours daily | 1 hr weekly | 0.2 hours daily | 0.25 hours daily | 2 hr weekly | 0.5 hours daily | 5 min weekly | 6 min weekly | 1 hr daily | 1 min daily | 1 other daily | 7 hr weekly | 1.5 hours daily | 2 hr daily | 2 min daily | 2 other daily | 15 min weekly | 40 min every other week | 3 hr daily | 3 min daily | 3 other daily | 4 hr daily | 4 min daily | 4 other daily | 5 min daily | 5 other daily | 45 min weekly | 7 other daily | 8 hr daily | 60 min weekly | 10 hr daily | 10 min daily | 10 other daily | 12 hr daily | 12 intl units daily | 12 min daily | 15 hr daily | 15 min daily | 16 hr daily | 20 hr daily | 20 min daily | 24 hr daily | 24 other daily | 25 min daily | 30 min daily | 30 min one time | 40 min daily | 45 min daily | 60 min daily | 90 min daily | 100 hr daily | 100 min daily | 100 other daily | 120 min daily | 180 min daily | 200 hr daily | 200 min daily | 240 other daily | 1000 min daily | 10000 min daily | 10000000 mg daily | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been using Prayer or how long patients were using Prayer before stopping.
Currently Using Prayer
Stopped Using Prayer
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 75 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 100% | 25 |
|---|
Other
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 3% | 2 |
| None | 97% | 73 |
Top reported side-effects include: Anxiety, compulsiveness
Summary results are based on 75 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 75)
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- spider
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: severe
- Chest: none
- Legs: moderate
- See profile
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by spider
Aug 23, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- General health
- Advice/Tips
- believe what you pray!
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
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- TabithaSimmions
- Sex: F
- Mental Symptoms: mild
- Physical Symptoms: mild
- Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: moderate
- 514
- VL ?
- See profile
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by TabithaSimmions
Aug 23, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Other
- Advice/Tips
- Try it!
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
Report created on November 07, 2009.