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Maria Kopp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

János Pilling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Relationship Between Religiosity and Health: Evidence from a Post-Communist Country
    International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013
    Co-Authors: Barna Konkolÿ Thege, János Pilling, András Székely, Mária S. Kopp
    Abstract:

    Background The relationship between religiosity and health has been investigated in the western world for decades. However, very little data are available from the post-Communist region of Europe, where religion was suppressed for a long time. Purpose The aim of the present study was to lessen this gap. Methods In 2002, 13 years after the regime change, 12,643 persons (mean age = 47.6 ± 17.9 years; 44.8 % male) were interviewed in a Hungarian representative survey. The relationship of mental and physical health indicators with religious worship and personal importance of religion—controlling for several psychological and lifestyle characteristics—were analyzed using the general linear model procedure. Results Our results showed that practicing religion was largely associated with better mental health and more favorable physical health status. However, persons being religious in their own way tended to show more unfavourable results across several variables when compared to those practicing religion regularly in a religious community or even to those considering themselves as non-religious. The personal importance of religion showed a mixed pattern, since it was positively associated not only with well-being but depression and anxiety as well. Conclusions We can conclude that even after an anti-religious totalitarian political system practicing religion still remained a health protecting factor.

  • relationship between religiosity and health evidence from a post Communist Country
    International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013
    Co-Authors: Barna Konkoly Thege, János Pilling, András Székely, Maria Kopp
    Abstract:

    Background The relationship between religiosity and health has been investigated in the western world for decades. However, very little data are available from the post-Communist region of Europe, where religion was suppressed for a long time.

András Székely - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Relationship Between Religiosity and Health: Evidence from a Post-Communist Country
    International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013
    Co-Authors: Barna Konkolÿ Thege, János Pilling, András Székely, Mária S. Kopp
    Abstract:

    Background The relationship between religiosity and health has been investigated in the western world for decades. However, very little data are available from the post-Communist region of Europe, where religion was suppressed for a long time. Purpose The aim of the present study was to lessen this gap. Methods In 2002, 13 years after the regime change, 12,643 persons (mean age = 47.6 ± 17.9 years; 44.8 % male) were interviewed in a Hungarian representative survey. The relationship of mental and physical health indicators with religious worship and personal importance of religion—controlling for several psychological and lifestyle characteristics—were analyzed using the general linear model procedure. Results Our results showed that practicing religion was largely associated with better mental health and more favorable physical health status. However, persons being religious in their own way tended to show more unfavourable results across several variables when compared to those practicing religion regularly in a religious community or even to those considering themselves as non-religious. The personal importance of religion showed a mixed pattern, since it was positively associated not only with well-being but depression and anxiety as well. Conclusions We can conclude that even after an anti-religious totalitarian political system practicing religion still remained a health protecting factor.

  • relationship between religiosity and health evidence from a post Communist Country
    International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013
    Co-Authors: Barna Konkoly Thege, János Pilling, András Székely, Maria Kopp
    Abstract:

    Background The relationship between religiosity and health has been investigated in the western world for decades. However, very little data are available from the post-Communist region of Europe, where religion was suppressed for a long time.

Jeremy D Kark - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • prevalence and determinants of binge drinking in middle age in a transitional post Communist Country a population based study in tirana albania
    Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2010
    Co-Authors: Genc Burazeri, Jeremy D Kark
    Abstract:

    Aim s : To assess the prevalence and determinants of binge drinking in the middle-age population of transitional post-Communist Albania, for which data were previously unavailable. Methods: A population-based sample aged 35–74 years, interviewed and examined in Tirana in 2003–2006, included 450 men and 235 women for whom data on alcohol intake were collected (65.5% response). Multivariable-adjusted logistic regression was used to assess the association of drinking patterns with sociodemographic, socioeconomic and psychosocial characteristics and coronary risk factors. Results: Age-standardized to the 2005 census, 9.2% (95% confidence interval, CI = 6.5–11.9%) and 10.3% (95% CI = 7.4–13.1%) of men reported two to three or more annual episodes of drunkenness and hangovers, respectively. In women, the prevalence of both these markers of binging was 1.4% (95% CI = 0–3.1%). Among men, 8.9% (95% CI = 6.2–11.6%) reported drinking ≥60 g alcohol per session. In multivariable-adjusted models in men, binge drinking was related to low educational level (odds ratio, OR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0–3.3), financial loss in the pyramid collapse (OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.0–2.5) and religiosity (inversely) in both Muslims and Christians (OR = 0.2, 95% CI = 0.1–0.4). Conclusions: Among men in this transitional Southeast European Country, social disadvantage and financial stress appear to promote alcohol abuse (which is rare in women), and traditionalism may be protective.

Mária S. Kopp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Relationship Between Religiosity and Health: Evidence from a Post-Communist Country
    International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013
    Co-Authors: Barna Konkolÿ Thege, János Pilling, András Székely, Mária S. Kopp
    Abstract:

    Background The relationship between religiosity and health has been investigated in the western world for decades. However, very little data are available from the post-Communist region of Europe, where religion was suppressed for a long time. Purpose The aim of the present study was to lessen this gap. Methods In 2002, 13 years after the regime change, 12,643 persons (mean age = 47.6 ± 17.9 years; 44.8 % male) were interviewed in a Hungarian representative survey. The relationship of mental and physical health indicators with religious worship and personal importance of religion—controlling for several psychological and lifestyle characteristics—were analyzed using the general linear model procedure. Results Our results showed that practicing religion was largely associated with better mental health and more favorable physical health status. However, persons being religious in their own way tended to show more unfavourable results across several variables when compared to those practicing religion regularly in a religious community or even to those considering themselves as non-religious. The personal importance of religion showed a mixed pattern, since it was positively associated not only with well-being but depression and anxiety as well. Conclusions We can conclude that even after an anti-religious totalitarian political system practicing religion still remained a health protecting factor.