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Psychosocial and spiritual needs of patients with chronic diseases: validation of the Chinese version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire by Arndt Büssing; Xiao-feng Zhai; Wen-bo Peng; Chang-quan Ling is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Objective: Even in secular societies, a small portion of patients find their spirituality to help cope with illness. but for the majority of patients, psychosocial and spiritual needs are neither addressed nor even considered a relevant factor by health care professionals. to measure such specific needs, the spiritual needs questionnaire (spnq) was developed. the aim of this study was to validate the chinese version of the spnq (spnq-ch) and thus to measure psychosocial and spiritual needs of chinese patients. ## Methods: This was a cross-sectional study among 168 patients with chronic diseases who were recruited in the changhai hospital of traditional chinese medicine, shanghai, china using standardized questionnaires. we performed reliability and factor analyses, as well as analyses of variance, first order correlations and regression analyses. ## Results: The 17-item spnq-ch had a similar factorial structure as the original version with two main and three minor factors which accounted for 64% of variance, and internal consistency estimates (cronbach's α) ranging from 0.51 to 0.81. included were the 4-item scale inner peace needs, the 5-item scale giving/generativity needs, th

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Author

Arndt Büssing; Xiao-feng Zhai; Wen-bo Peng; Chang-quan Ling

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2013

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)