Depression was the third-most frequent disease in the world in 2004, and will be the most common disease globally by 2030, according to the World Health Organization. Now there's good news: A new study has found that regular attendance at religious services offers "significant protection" against this terrible disease.
The April edition of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry carries
the report: Incidence of clinical depression was 22 percent lower among
those who attended religious services at least monthly, compared with
those who never attended. While researchers did not differentiate
between faiths, about 80 percent of worshippers in the study would have
been from Christian denominations.
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