Table 1.

Religious Involvement and Probability of Using Outpatient Care and Prescription Medications in the Past Year by Psychological Distress

	Moderate Distress (Unweighted, n=49,902)							Serious Distress (Unweighted, n=14,548)
	Religious Involvement	Outpatient Care			Prescription Medication			Religious Involvement	Outpatient Care			Prescription Medication
	Column(%)	Row (%)	SE (%)	p-Value	Row (%)	SE(%)	p-Value	Column (%)	Row (%)	SE(%)	p-Value	Row (%)	SE(%)	p-Value
Overall	—	9.6	0.2	—	14.3	0.3	—	—	30.4	0.7	—	40.8	0.7	—
Service attendance
Never	34.0	9.3	0.4	.454	14.6	0.5	.851	40.8	27.3	1.0	<.001	37.6	1.1	<.001
1–2 times	22.8	9.5	0.5		14.4	0.5		24.4	28.7	1.3		38.8	1.4
3–24 times	14.7	10.5	0.6		14.3	0.7		13.9	35.4	1.7		44.3	1.8
25 or more times	28.6	9.6	0.5		14.0	0.6		21.0	35.0	1.6		47.0	1.4
Importance of religious beliefs
Strongly disagree	11.7	10.1	0.6	.362	14.9	0.8	.347	14.8	25.1	1.6	<.001	33.4	1.7	<.001
Disagree	11.5	10.5	0.7		13.2	0.7		12.5	25.4	1.4		33.7	1.6
Agree	38.1	9.3	0.4		14.2	0.4		36.3	30.1	1.1		40.5	1.1
Strongly agree	38.5	9.5	0.4		14.6	0.5		36.2	34.7	1.2		46.7	1.2
Influence of religious beliefs on decisions
Strongly disagree	10.9	9.9	0.6	.532	14.3	0.7	.160	13.8	27.5	1.7	0.002	34.0	1.7	<.001
Disagree	15.1	10.0	0.6		12.9	0.7		17.0	26.1	1.4		33.8	1.5
Agree	41.3	9.2	0.4		14.6	0.4		38.9	31.4	1.1		42.9	1.1
Strongly agree	32.4	9.8	0.4		14.7	0.5		30.1	32.9	1.3		45.2	1.3

Note: Percentages weighted to represnt the noninstitutionalized population of U.S. adults age 18 and older.