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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 & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons used # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Other 29 2
General health 27 1
Treat Parkinson's 8 2
Anxiety 4 0
Anxiety, compulsiveness 1 1
Support another treatment 1 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
1 17%
None
5 83%

Most commonly reported side effects

compulsiveness
1 17%
Anxiety
1 17%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Schedules

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently using Prayer. See all 25 dosages

  0.5minutes as needed 100 min all the time (24/7) 15 min all the time (24/7) 15minutes as needed 1 min all the time (24/7) 1other as needed 30 min all the time (24/7) 5 min all the time (24/7) daily 0.5 hours daily 5 min weekly 1 hr daily 1 min daily 1 other daily 2 hr daily 2 min daily 5 min daily 5 other daily 10 min daily 15 min daily 20 min daily 24 hr daily 30 min daily 60 min daily 200 hr daily
  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 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 23 Number of Patients: 23 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 2 Number of Patients: 2 2 Number of Patients: 2 4 Number of Patients: 4 3 Number of Patients: 3 3 Number of Patients: 3 6 Number of Patients: 6 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Currently Using Prayer

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
5
11
27

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
3 50%
Usually
3 50%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
6 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
3 50%

Report created on November 20, 2009.