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Table 3 Means and standard deviations of the responses of different religious groups concerning their beliefs regarding dementia

From: Ageing, dementia and society – an epistemological perspective

 

Having a religionhelps to alleviatethe effects of dementia

Having a religionreduces theprobability ofdevelopingdementia in thefuture

Dementia canbe curedthrough divinehealing, suchas prayer

Christianity

3.04 (1.040)

2.73 (1.142)

2.89 (1.180)

Islam

3.01 (1.214)

2.59 (1.180)

2.54 (1.131)

Hinduism

2.64 (1.251)

2.33 (1.201)

2.21 (1.168)

Buddhism

2.60 (1.107)

2.37 (1.118)

1.87 (1.049)

Taoism

2.38 (1.107)

2.09 (1.104)

1.73 (1.053)

Freethought

2.19 (0.913)

1.80 (0.814)

1.65 (0.859)

  1. Standard deviations (s.d.) are presented in parentheses following the mean values.
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