section_path: Prayer healing/Prevalence of prayer for health
section_name: Prevalence of prayer for health
paragraph_text: Prevalence of prayer for health
  
  Some modalities of alternative medicine employ prayer. A survey released in May 2004 by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health in the United States, found that in 2002, 43% of Americans pray for their own health, 24% pray for others' health, and 10% participate in a prayer group for their own health.