Krause provides information between pediatrician Seth Asser and children's advocate Rita Swan of the journal "Pediatrics" who revealed that they investigated 172 child deaths in healing churches American faiths over a 20-year period and found that the majority of them were a result of religion-based neglect (Krause 46). 140 of the 172 deaths were due to pathologies which, under medical treatment, would have allowed a survival rate of 90%. Eighteen additional deaths were due to diseases resulting in recovery of more than 50% (46). According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the US National Institutes of Health, it was reported that in 2002, 62% of Americans used some form of alternative medicine. Of the 10 most common alternative medicine therapies, prayer for self accounted for 43% and prayer for others 24.4%, making them the two most commonly named therapies (Masters 268). In a study of psychiatric patients hospitalized in Orissa, India, it was found that a majority of 85.5% of patients believed in supernatural causation and 75% sought faith healing before consulting a doctor.