Table 3.

Association between religiosity measures and clinically meaningful increase in generic and disease specific HRQOL among survivors of acute coronary syndrome after 1 to 6 months for hospital discharge

Religiosity Measures	Clinically meaningful increase in MCS-QOL		Clinically meaningful increase in PCS-QOL		Clinically meaningful increase in SAQ-QOL
	Unadjusted model OR (95% CI)	Fully adjusted modela OR (95% CI)	Unadjusted model OR (95% CI)	Fully adjusted modela OR (95% CI)	Unadjusted model OR (95% CI)	Fully adjusted modela OR (95% CI)
Strength and comfort from religion
A great deal	1.67 (1.15–2.44)	1.47 (0.97–2.21)	0.92 (0.63–1.32)	1.06 (0.70–1.59)	1.01 (0.67–1.50)	0.95 (0.61–1.48)
Little/Some	1.19 (0.80–1.76)	1.14 (0.76–1.72)	1.12 (0.76–1.65)	1.17 (0.78–1.74)	0.77 (0.50–1.19)	0.74 (0.48–1.15)
None	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Petition Prayers for health
Yes	1.25 (0.97–1.60)	1.06 (0.80–1.39)	0.99 (0.76–1.27)	1.16 (0.88–1.54)	1.55 (1.16–2.07)	1.49 (1.09–2.04)
No	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Intercessory Prayers for health
Yes	1.50 (1.00–2.23)	1.31 (0.87–1.99)	1.57 (1.04–2.37)	1.72 (1.12–2.63)	1.52 (0.95–2.43)	1.44 (0.88–2.33)
No	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref

^aAdjusted for sex, race/ethnicity, perceived stress, symptoms of depression and anxiety, length of index hospitalization, type of ACS, GRACE-risk score, receipt of reperfusion therapy, referral for cardiac rehabilitation, and study sites

Bold text: Statistically significant results from the fully adjusted regression models