Table 1.

Demographics

Variable	Entire sample		Prayed		Did not pray		p
	n	%	n	%a	n	%b
Ethnicity	175		79		86		0.000
African American	41	23	27	34.6	10	11.5
Asian/Pacific Islander	52	30	23	29.5	29	33.3
Caucasian	53	30	13	16.7	40	46
Latina	23	14	15	19.2	8	9.2
Place of Birth
USA/Canada	111	63	51	65.4	59	67.8
Latin America/Caribbean	15	8	9	11.5	5	5.7
Asia/Pacific Islands	36	20	18	23.1	20	23
Other	5	3	1	1	3	3
Stage of Disease
0 or DCISc	10	6	5	5.7	5	6.4
I	81	47	40	51.3	38	44.8
II	78	45	33	42.3	43	49.4
Religion							0.000
Catholic	44	25	25	32.1	19	22.9
Protestant	58	33	38	48.7	19	22.9
Jewish	7	4	1	1.3	6	7.2
Buddhist	7	4	1	1.3	6	7.2
Otherd	8	4	5	6.4	5	6.0
None/not practicing	31	18	8	10.3	23	27.7
Has an active spiritual practice	97	55	54	68.4	39	45.3	0.001
Marital status
Married/partnered	87	50	40	51.9	46	57.5
Single	27	15	12	15.6	13	16.3
Divorced	30	17	15	19.5	13	16.3
Widowed	17	10	10	13	7	8.8
Other	1	0.6	0	0	1	1.3
Education							0.001
Less than 12 years	4	2.4	0	0	4	5.0
High school graduate	11	6	7	9.5	4	5.0
Some college	44	25	28	37.8	13	16.3
College graduate	52	30	26	35.1	24	30.0
Post graduate	48	28	13	27.1	35	43.8
Health rating
Excellent	22	13	6	9.1	15	21.1
Very good	53	31	28	42.4	25	35.2
Good	43	28	19	28.8	20	28.2
Fair	19	11	10	15.2	9	12.7
Poor	5	3	3	4.5	2	2.8

^aPercentage of those who prayed

^bPercentage of those who did not pray

^cDuctal Carcinoma in Situ

^dOther includes one woman who was Jewish but practiced Buddhist practices, one Jewish woman who said that she was pantheistic, one Hindu, one woman who used Both Catholic and Native American practices, one Native American, two Muslim, two Mormons, one Sikh, one woman who said that she was Catholic and Baptist, one who said that she was both Catholic and Christian, one woman who said that she was “Science of Mind,” and one Swaminarayan.