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These researchers performed a follow-up study into the question of whether spirituality ameliorates depression risk. In the original study, which involved white Protestant or Catholic women at high depression risk and low-risk epidemiological controls, those who rated their religious or spiritual beliefs as having high personal importance had one tenth of the risk of other participants for recurrence or new incidence of major depression over 10 years.
In the new, prospective, 10-year study, participants were 114 adult Catholic or Protestant offspring of the original sample (mean age at study entry, 29; 72 offspring of high-risk group; 61% female). At study entry, they reported their history of major depression episodes (MDEs; 49% of high-ris…