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Religious values, practices and pregnancy outcomes: A comparison of the impact of sect and mainstream christian affiliation

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  • Najman, J. M.
  • Williams, G. M.
  • Keeping, J. D.
  • Morrison, J.
  • Anderson, M. J.

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In this report 6566 women enrolled in the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) were separated into three groups; members of religious sects, Christians who attend church frequently and Christians who are infrequent attenders. These three groups, respectively labelled Christian sects, Christian attenders and lukewarm Christians were compared on a number of social background, lifestyle and pregnancy outcome variables. The sect members appeared to have the most favourable health, lifestyles and healthy babies at delivery, though this latter findings appears attributable to specific characteristics of the mother and her lifestyle. On most measures the children of lukewarm Christians appear to manifest the worst health while Christian attenders form a group whose children's health is between that of sect members and lukewarm Christians.

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  • Najman, J. M. & Williams, G. M. & Keeping, J. D. & Morrison, J. & Anderson, M. J., 1988. "Religious values, practices and pregnancy outcomes: A comparison of the impact of sect and mainstream christian affiliation," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 26(4), pages 401-407, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:26:y:1988:i:4:p:401-407
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    1. Burdette, Amy M. & Weeks, Janet & Hill, Terrence D. & Eberstein, Isaac W., 2012. "Maternal religious attendance and low birth weight," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(12), pages 1961-1967.
    2. James Cramer, 1995. "Racial and Ethnic Differences in Birthweight: The Role of Income and Financial Assistance," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 32(2), pages 231-247, May.
    3. Rotundo, G. & Ausloos, M. & Herteliu, C. & Ileanu, B., 2015. "Hurst exponent of very long birth time series in XX century Romania. Social and religious aspects," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 429(C), pages 109-117.

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