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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. Read more...Click to read more below


Reasons Taken

116 patients in the community are taking or have taken Prayer.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 31 26%
comfort issue 29 25%
General health 23 19%
Slow my MS progress 7 6%
Anxiety 7 6%
Assistive communication 3 2%
Don't know 1 <1%
disease-related symptoms 1 <1%
Support another treatment 1 <1%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Prayer.

Top 10 (Show all)

All (Show Top 10)

  0 hr day 0 min day 0 other day 0 day 0 hr none 0 min none 0 other none 0.5 hr day 1 hr day 1 min day 1 other day 2 hr day 2 min day 3 hr day 3 min day 3 other day 5 min day 5 other day 10 hr day 10 min day 10 other day 12 hr day 15 min day 16 hr day 20 min day 24 hr day 30 min day 40 min day 60 min day 100 min day 240 other day 1000 min day
  9 Number of Patients: 9 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 3 Number of Patients: 3 11 Number of Patients: 11 3 Number of Patients: 3 2 Number of Patients: 2 9 Number of Patients: 9 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 7 Number of Patients: 7 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 9 Number of Patients: 9 12 Number of Patients: 12 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

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

Currently taking Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
12
13
6
6
7
71

Stopped taking Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
0
0
0
Why Patients Stopped Taking 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 14 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 100% 6

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 14

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 14 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 14)

  • Gypsy
    Sensation: Severe
    Overall: Moderate
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: mild
    Speech: mild
    Swallowing: mild
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
    See profile
  • Gypsy
  • by Gypsy
    Aug 25, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Other

  • mark61
    Sensation: Mild
    Overall: Moderate
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: moderate
    Speech: moderate
    Swallowing: moderate
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
    See profile
  • mark61
  • by mark61
    Sep 02, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • General health
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