TY - JOUR
TI - Assessing spirituality and religiousness in advanced cancer patients
AU - Mystakidou, K.
AU - Tsilika, E.
AU - Parpa, E.
AU - Smyrnioti, M.
AU - Vlahos, L.
JO - American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
PY - 2006
VL - 23
TODO - 6
SP - 457-463
PB - 
SN - null
TODO - 10.1177/1049909106294880
TODO - adult;  aged;  anxiety;  article;  depression;  factorial analysis;  female;  Greece;  human;  male;  methodology;  middle aged;  neoplasm;  palliative therapy;  psychological aspect;  psychometry;  publication;  questionnaire;  religion;  reproducibility;  standard;  validation study, Adult;  Aged;  Aged, 80 and over;  Anxiety;  Depression;  Factor Analysis, Statistical;  Female;  Greece;  Humans;  Male;  Middle Aged;  Neoplasms;  Palliative Care;  Psychometrics;  Questionnaires;  Religion and Medicine;  Reproducibility of Results;  Spirituality;  Translations
TODO - The aim of this study was to translate the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale into the Greek language and validate its psychometric properties in a sample of advanced cancer patients treated in a palliative care unit. The scale was translated into Greek with the "forward-backward" procedure. It was administered twice, with a 3-day interval, to 82 patients with advanced cancer. Patients completed the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale and the Greek Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. The scale had an overall Cronbach α of 0.89. Overall test-retest reliability was satisfactory at P < .0005. Satisfactory construct validity was supported between the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale subscales and Hospital Anxiety and Depression subscales. Interscale and interitem correlations were found satisfactory at P < .0005. These results support that the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale is an instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties and is a valid research tool for spirituality in advanced cancer patients. © 2007 Sage Publications.
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