. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 28.

Published in final edited form as: J Aging Health. 2008 Apr 28;20(5):545–559. doi: 10.1177/0898264308317538

Table 2.

Baseline Prevalences and Correlations^a of Religiousness Predictors With Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment Outcomes

		Low-Burden Treatment		High-Burden Treatment
Predictor Variable	Prevalence (%)	Correlation Coefficient	p Value	Correlation Coefficient	p Value
Religious attendance (once a month or more vs. less frequently)	25	0.05	.45	0.01	.87
Religious identity (deeply religious vs. less religious)	26	−0.02	.72	0.01	.92
Religious comfort (a great deal vs. little or none)	58	0.08	.22	0.02	.70
Grown closer to god (yes vs. no)	60	0.15	.02	0.10	.10
Grown spiritually (yes vs. no)	56	0.08	.19	0.05	.46

These are values of Kendall’s tau-b correlation coefficients for ordinal data.