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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

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

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 180 47%
General health 95 25%
Slow my ALS progress 32 8%
Anxiety 11 2%
Treat Parkinson's 10 2%
Slow my MS progress 6 1%
comfort issue 4 1%
Emotional lability 3 <1%
Don't know 3 <1%
spiritual enlightenment 2 <1%
disease-related symptoms 1 <1%
Support another treatment 1 <1%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Prayer.

Top 10 (Show all)

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  0 hr day 0 min day 0 day 0 hr none 0 min none 0 other none 0 none 0.05 hr day 0.1 hr day 1 hr week 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 2 min day 3 hr day 4 hr day 5 min day 5 other day 8 hr day 10 hr day 10 min day 12 hr day 15 min day 16 hr day 20 hr day 20 min day 24 hr day 30 min day 40 min day 60 min day 100 hr day 200 hr day 1000 min day
  140 Number of Patients: 140 2 Number of Patients: 2 8 Number of Patients: 8 1 Number of Patients: 1 12 Number of Patients: 12 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 20 Number of Patients: 20 68 Number of Patients: 68 1 Number of Patients: 1 22 Number of Patients: 22 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 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 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 6 Number of Patients: 6 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 18 Number of Patients: 18 16 Number of Patients: 16 2 Number of Patients: 2 5 Number of Patients: 5 1 Number of Patients: 1 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
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19
22
30
45
162

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 20 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 100% 9

Other

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 20

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 20 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 20)

  • Wayne Lampe
    Mouth/throat: mild
    Arms: mild
    Chest: mild
    Legs: moderate
    See profile
  • Wayne Lampe
  • by Wayne Lampe
    Aug 23, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Other

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

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