Journal article
Attending Religious Services and Its Relationship with Coronary Heart Disease and Related Risk Factors in Older Adults: A Qualitative Study of Church Pastors’ and Parishioners’ Perspectives
Abstract
A qualitative study was undertaken to explain findings of a cross-sectional study of Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) 4.1 data showing older persons who attend religious services more than once a week, compared to persons who do not attend at all, have lower prevalences of coronary heart disease (CHD), diabetes and high blood pressure. Twelve semi-structured interviews with ordained pastors and three focus groups with older parishioners …
Authors
Banerjee AT; Strachan PH; Boyle MH; Anand SS; Oremus M
Journal
Journal of Religion and Health, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 1770–1785
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
12 2014
DOI
10.1007/s10943-013-9783-1
ISSN
0022-4197