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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. Read more...Click to read more below


Reasons used

322 patients in the community are using or have used Prayer.

Top 10 (Show all)

Schedules

Based on the patients currently using Prayer.

Top 10 (Show all)

All (Show top 10)

  1000000 other all the time (24/7) 15 min all the time (24/7) 1 min all the time (24/7) 1 other all the time (24/7) 24hours as needed 2 intl units all the time (24/7) 2minutes as needed 30minutes as needed 5minutes as needed 60 min all the time (24/7) daily 0.1 hours daily 1 hr weekly 0.2 hours daily 0.25 hours daily 2 hr weekly 0.5 hours daily 1 hr daily 1 other daily 1.5 hours daily 2 hr daily 3 hr daily 4 hr daily 5 min daily 8 hr daily 60 min weekly 10 hr daily 10 min daily 10 other daily 15 min daily 20 hr daily 20 min daily 24 hr daily 30 min daily 45 min daily 60 min daily 100 hr daily 100 other daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 115 Number of Patients: 115 6 Number of Patients: 6 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 13 Number of Patients: 13 58 Number of Patients: 58 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 19 Number of Patients: 19 4 Number of Patients: 4 2 Number of Patients: 2 5 Number of Patients: 5 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 13 Number of Patients: 13 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 16 Number of Patients: 16 14 Number of Patients: 14 1 Number of Patients: 1 7 Number of Patients: 7 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been using Prayer or how long patients were using Prayer before stopping.

Currently Using Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
2
15
31
99

Stopped Using Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
1
0
0
Why Patients Stopped Using Prayer (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 1 100% Did not seem to work: 100%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 12 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 100% 5

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 12

Top reported side-effects include: Anxiety, compulsiveness

Summary results are based on 12 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 12)

  • spider
    Sex: M
    Mouth/throat: mild
    Arms: severe
    Chest: none
    Legs: moderate
  • spider
  • by spider
    Aug 23, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • General health
Advice/Tips
believe what you pray!

  • bchute1
    Sex: M
    Mouth/throat: moderate
    Arms: mild
    Chest: mild
    Legs: moderate
    Type: Upper Motor Neuron
  • bchute1
  • by bchute1
    Jan 09, 2009
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Slow my ALS progress

See all evaluation results for Prayer

Report created on November 07, 2009.