Screening the spiritual dimension of patients with a chronic or life-threatening disease: A reliability and construct validity study of the SPIRIT questionnaire.
Niecky Fruneaux-van Amerongen,
Jan Smit,
Ewald Bronkhorst
et al.
Abstract:Prior studies addressed the importance of a valid and thorough quantitative instrument for measuring spirituality in a secularized context. However, questions about meaning and spirituality are often limited or absent in multidimensional questionnaires. For that reason, a questionnaire was developed in the Dutch health care setting: Spirituality and Pastoral care In Relation to chronic Illness and Terminal disease (SPIRIT). It is used as a screening instrument in health care practice to identify patients with … Show more
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