Table 1.

Prevalence of Cultural/Folk Beliefs and Religiosity/Spirituality Characteristics

	n = 599
	% Agree
Cultural/folk beliefs
“Air causes a cancer to grow faster”	23.5
“Surgery causes a cancer to grow faster”	16.7
“People with high blood pressure are more likely to get cancer”	5.9
“Someone can give you cancer by putting a root or spell on you”	1.4
“If a person worries about their cancer, it will get worse”	46.6
“If a person prays about cancer, God will heal it without medical treatment”	39.6
“The devil can cause a person to get cancer”	7.9
“When I get sick, I am to blame”	6.0
“If it's meant to be, I will stay healthy”	39.9
“Health professionals control my health”	22.6
Religiosity/spirituality
Religious service attendance
Never	6.0
<1 × /month	10.5
1 × /month	9.1
2–3 × /month	15.1
1 × /week	38.9
Several times/week	20.6
Frequency of prayer
Rarely or never	1.9
1 × /week	1.5
Several times/week	2.9
1–2 × /day	26.4
Many times/day	67.3
Extent religion/spirituality involved in dealing with stressful situations
Not at all	1.5
Not very	1.9
Somewhat	13.4
Very	83.2
Extent you consider yourself a religious/spiritual person
Not at all	1.0
Slightly	5.3
Moderately	30.7
Very	63.0