Table 1.
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 |
Percentage of those who prayed
Percentage of those who did not pray
Ductal Carcinoma in Situ
Other 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.