{"id":37830,"date":"2013-04-16T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/national_post_attendance_at_religious_services_lowers_risk_of_depression_st\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T01:00:17","slug":"national_post_attendance_at_religious_services_lowers_risk_of_depression_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37830","title":{"rendered":"(National Post) Attendance at religious services lowers risk of depression, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major new study that tracked more than 12,000 Canadians over a period of 14 years has found that regular attendance of religious service offers significant protection against depression.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in the April issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan write that incidence of clinical depression was 22% lower among those who attended religious services at least once a month compared with people who never attended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSignificantly fewer monthly attenders reported having episodes or a diagnosis of depression,\u201d\u009d the authors write. \u201cThis \u201d\u00a6 suggests a protective effect of religious attendance.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2013\/04\/10\/attendance-at-religious-services-lowers-risk-of-depression-study-finds\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major new study that tracked more than 12,000 Canadians over a period of 14 years has found that regular attendance of religious service offers significant protection against depression. In an article published in the April issue of the Canadian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37830\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,207,129,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-canada","category-psychology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}