Identifying pathways to religious service attendance among older adults: A lagged exposure-wide analysis.

ABSTRACT: We used prospective data (spanning 8 years) from a national sample of older U.S. adults aged > 50 years (the Health and Retirement Study, N = 13,771) to evaluate potential factors that lead to subsequent religious service attendance. We applied a lagged exposure-wide epidemiologic design and evaluated 60 candidate predictors of regular subsequent religious service attendance. Candidate predictors were drawn from the following domains: health behaviors, physical health, psychological well-being, psychological distress, social factors, and work. After rigorous adjustment for a rich set of potential confounders, we observed modest evidence that changes in some indices of physical health, psychological well-being, psychological distress, and social functioning predicted regular religious servi

SUBMITTER: Cowden RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9707744 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature