Spiritual Assist — A study involving more than 92,000 postmenopausal women enrolled in the nationwide Women’s Health Initiative found that women who reported attending weekly religious services in the previous month were less likely to be depressed, more likely to be optimistic and more likely to report overall positive social support compared with women attending services less often. The senior author of the study, which appears in the November issue of the Journal of Religious Health, was Dr. Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, professor of epidemiology & population health. The lead author was Dr. Eliezer Schnall, an assistant professor at Yeshiva University.
Posted on: Tuesday, December 06, 2011