scholarly journals The Price of Playing Through Pain: The Link Between Physical and Behavioral Health in Former NFL Athletes

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 155798832097554
Author(s):  
Evelyn Bush ◽  
Tim Cupery ◽  
Robert W. Turner ◽  
Amanda Sonnega ◽  
David Weir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Health ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Anger Attacks ◽  
Service Attendance

Over the past decade, media outlets have drawn attention to some of the health consequences of playing in the National Football League (NFL), including how wear-and-tear and injuries accumulated during athletes’ playing years can affect their physical, emotional, and behavioral health after retirement from professional sports. Through a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional telephone survey of former NFL athletes, this study estimated logistic regression models to assess the relationship between several forms of physical pain and anger attacks, controlling for binge drinking, signs of depression, functional limitations, NFL career duration, religious service attendance, and demographic characteristics (age, marital status, race, education, income, and wealth). The analytic sample included 1030 former NFL players. Neck pain, lower back pain, headaches/migraines, and the number of sites of pain were positively and significantly related to anger attacks. There was no significant association between joint pain and anger attacks. NFL career duration was negatively associated with anger attacks, as was religious service attendance. Future research should focus on factors that protect against affective aggression in former professional athletes and how protective factors can be adapted to the broader population.

scholarly journals Religious Service Attendance, Religious Coping, and Risk of Hypertension in Women Participating in the Nurses’ Health Study II

2019 ◽  
Vol 189 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas D Spence ◽  
Maryam S Farvid ◽  
Erica T Warner ◽  
Tyler J VanderWeele ◽  
Shelley S Tworoger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Service Attendance

Abstract The association between religious service attendance, religious coping, and hypertension is unclear. Prospective research and assessment of potential mediators is needed to understand this relationship. From 2001–2013, we prospectively followed 44,281 nonhypertensive women who provided information on religious service attendance and religious coping in the Nurses’ Health Study II. Cox regression and mediation analyses were conducted to assess associations between religion and hypertension. There were 453,706 person-years of follow-up and 11,773 incident hypertension cases. Women who attended religious services were less likely to develop hypertension. In the fully adjusting model, compared with women who never or almost never attend religious meetings or services, women attending less than once per month (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.97, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.91, 1.03), 1–3 times per month (HR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.88, 1.00), once per week (HR = 0.93, 95% CI: 0.88, 0.98), or more than once per week (HR = 0.91, 95% CI: 0.86, 0.97) showed a decreased risk of hypertension (P for trend = 0.001). Body mass index was an important mediator (11.5%; P < 0.001). Religious coping had a marginal association with hypertension. In conclusion, religious service attendance was modestly associated with hypertension in an inverse dose-response manner and partially mediated through body mass index. Future research is needed on biological or social reasons for the lower risk of hypertension.

Family Formation and Religious Service Attendance

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyrus Schleifer ◽  
Mark Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
School Age ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
First Child ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Service Attendance

The positive relationship between family formation and regular weekly religious service attendance is well established, but cross-sectional data make it difficult to be confident that this relationship is causal. Moreover, if the relationship is causal, cross-sectional data make it difficult to disentangle the effects of three distinct family-formation events: marrying, having a child, and having a child who reaches school age. We use three waves of the new General Social Survey panel data to disentangle these separate potential effects. Using random-, fixed-, and hybrid-effect models, we show that, although in cross-section marriage and children predict attendance across individuals, neither leads to increased attendance when looking at individuals who change over time. Having a child who becomes school aged is the only family-formation event that remains associated with increased attendance among individuals who change over time. This suggests that the relationships between marriage and attending and between having a first child (or, for that matter, having several children) and attending are spurious, causal in the other direction, or indirect (since marrying and having a first child make it more likely that one will eventually have a school-age child). Adding a school-age child in the household is the only family-formation event that directly leads to increased attendance.

Functional Limitations and Religious Service Attendance among African American and White Older Adults

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. L. Roff ◽  
D. L. Klemmack ◽  
C. Simon ◽  
G. W. Cho ◽  
M. W. Parker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
African American ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Service Attendance

scholarly journals Christian Nationalism and Views of Immigrants in the United States: Is the Relationship Stronger for the Religiously Inactive?

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 237802312098511
Author(s):  
Samuel Stroope ◽  
Heather M. Rackin ◽  
Paul Froese
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Nationalism ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Christian Nationalism ◽  
Service Attendance

Previous research has shown that Christian nationalism is linked to nativism and immigrant animus, while religious service attendance is associated with pro-immigrant views. The findings highlight the importance of distinguishing between religious ideologies and practices when considering how religion affects politics. Using a national sample of U.S. adults, we analyze immigrant views by measuring levels of agreement or disagreement that undocumented immigrants from Mexico are “mostly dangerous criminals.” We find that Christian nationalism is inversely related to pro-immigrant views for both the religiously active and inactive. However, strongly pro-immigrant views are less likely and anti-immigrant views are more likely among strong Christian nationalists who are religiously inactive compared with strong Christian nationalists who are religiously active. These results illustrate how religious nationalism can weaken tolerance and heighten intolerance most noticeably when untethered from religious communities.

scholarly journals Religious service attendance, divorce, and remarriage among U.S. nurses in mid and late life

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. e0207778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanshan Li ◽  
Laura D. Kubzansky ◽  
Tyler J. VanderWeele
Keyword(s):  
Late Life ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Service Attendance

scholarly journals Exploring the Neuropsychiatric Sequalae of Perceived COVID-19 Exposure in College Students: A Pilot Digital Phenotyping Study

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suraj K. Patel ◽  
John Torous
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Digital Phenotyping ◽  
Passive Data ◽  
Unexplained Symptoms ◽  
Passive Sensors ◽  
Headache Pain

The urgency to understand the long-term neuropsychiatric sequala of COVID-19, a part of the Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS), is expanding as millions of infected individuals experience new unexplained symptoms related to mood, anxiety, insomnia, headache, pain, and more. Much research on PACS involves cross sectional surveys which limits ability to understand the dynamic trajectory of this emerging phenomenon. In this secondary analysis, we analyzed data from a 4-week observational digital phenotyping study using the mindLAMP app for 695 college students with elevated stress who specified if they were exposed to COVID-19. Students also completed a biweekly survey of clinical assessments to obtain active data. Additionally, passive data streams like GPS, accelerometer, and screen state were extracted from phone sensors and through features the group built. Three hundred and eighty-second number participants successfully specified their COVID-19 exposure and completed the biweekly survey. From active smartphone data, we found significantly higher scores for the Prodromal Questionnaire (PQ) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) for students reporting exposure to COVID-19 compared to those who were not (ps < 0.05). Additionally, we found significantly decreased sleep duration as captured from the smartphone via passive data for the COVID-19 exposed group (p < 0.05). No significant differences were detected for other surveys or passive sensors. Smartphones can capture both self-reported symptoms and behavioral changes related to PACS. Our results around changes in sleep highlight how digital phenotyping methods can be used in a scalable and accessible manner toward better capturing the evolving phenomena of PACS. The present study further provides a foundation for future research to implement improving digital phenotyping methods.

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