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Regular Religious Service Attendance Tied to Fewer ‘Deaths of Despair’
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A new study finds that people who attend religious services at least once a week are significantly less likely to die from “deaths of despair,” including those related to suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol poisoning.
The research team led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health also showed that the link between service attendance and lower risk of deaths from despair was somewhat stronger for women in the study than for men. “Despair is something that can confront anyone dealing with severe difficulties or loss,” said Dr.
Tyler VanderWeele, the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology at the Chan school. “While the term ‘deaths of despair’ was originally coined in the context of working-class Americans
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