Table 3.

Logistic Regressions of Religious Involvement and 12 Month and Lifetime Major Depressive Disorder among African Americans (N = 3,412).

	12 Month MDD				Lifetime MDD
	OR (95% CI)	B	SE	p	OR (95% CI)	B	SE	p
Organizational Religiosity
Service Attendance
Never	0.46 (.24 - 0.90)	-0.76	0.33	.022	0.57 (.35 - 0.92)	-0.55	0.24	.021
Less than Once Per Yeara	1.0	--	--	--	1.0	--	--	--
Few Times Per Year	0.44 (.27 - 0.71)	-0.82	0.24	.001	0.73 (.48 - 1.11)	-0.32	0.21	.138
Few Times Per Month	0.39 (.22 - 0.69)	-0.93	0.29	.001	0.65 (.39 – 1.07)	-0.43	0.26	.092
At Least Once a Week	0.43 (.23 - 0.83)	-0.83	0.33	.012	0.61 (.37 - 0.98)	-0.50	0.24	.042
Nearly Everyday	0.50 (.18 - 1.26)	-0.68	0.54	.209	0.61 (.28 - 1.35)	-0.49	0.40	.227
Non-Organizational Religiosity
Reading Religious Materials	1.14 (1.001 - 1.29)	0.13	0.06	.049	1.12 (1.03 - 1.21)	0.11	0.04	.005
Watch Religious Television Programs	0.99 (.87 - 1.14)	-0.002	0.07	.976	0.97 (.88 - 1.05)	-0.03	0.04	.459
Listen to Religious Radio Programs	0.98 (.91 - 1.05)	-0.02	0.04	.560	0.96 (.91 - 1.02)	-0.04	0.03	.203
Prayer	0.93 (.78 - 1.11)	-0.07	0.09	.406	0.94 (.81 - 1.10)	-0.06	0.08	.455
Subjective Religiosity
Self-rated Religiosity	1.01 (.75 - 1.33)	0.002	0.15	.986	1.00 (.81 - 1.23)	0.001	0.11	.989
Religious Coping
Importance of Prayer in Stressful Situations	1.09 (.81 - 1.47)	0.09	0.15	.544	1.01 (.71 - 1.43)	0.01	0.18	.949
Look to God for Strength	0.75 (.57 - 0.99)	-0.28	0.14	.043	0.92 (.75 - 1.14)	-0.08	0.11	.467

OR=Odds Ratio, CI=Confidence Interval, B=logistic regression coefficient, SE=standard error of the logistic regression coefficient. Analysis controls for age, gender, education, income, marital status, region and number of chronic conditions.

^aReference Category.