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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 15 3
General health 12 4
quality of life 1 1
Support another treatment 1 1

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
9 100%

Schedules

Top 10 dosages based on patients currently using Prayer. See all 19 dosages

  1other as needed as needed 6 min weekly 1 hr daily 2 other daily 3 hr daily 3 min daily 5 min daily 45 min weekly 10 min daily 12 intl units daily 15 min daily 20 min daily 30 min daily 60 min daily 100 min daily 100 other daily 200 min daily 10000 min daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 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 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 7 Number of Patients: 7 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  

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
5
13

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
5 56%
Usually
2 22%
Sometimes
2 22%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
9 100%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
6 67%

Report created on November 20, 2009.