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Table 1. Assessment of Religion and Spirituality in Cancer Patients
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Tool
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Developer
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Purpose/ Focus/ Subscale (No.)
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Specific to Cancer Patients?
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Level of Psychometric Development
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Length/ Other Characteristics/ Comments
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| Systems of Belief Inventory (SBI-15R) [7] |
Holland et al. |
Two factors: Beliefs/experience (10); religious social support (5) |
Yes |
High |
Four items assume belief in God |
| DRI/DUREL [5] |
Sherman et al. |
Religious involvement (5) |
Yes |
Moderate |
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| FACIT-Sp [10,14] |
Brady et al.; Peterman |
Two factors: Meaning & peace (8), faith (4) |
Yes |
High. Limited cross-validation data. |
Part of FACT-G quality-of-life battery [11] |
| Brief R-COPE [8] |
Pargament et al. |
Two factors: Positive coping; negative coping/distress |
No |
Very High |
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| Fetzer Multidimensional Scale [18] |
Fetzer |
Multiple subscales |
No |
High. Under development. |
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| FICA: Spiritual history [1] |
Puchalski et al. |
Brief spiritual history |
No |
Low |
MD interview assessment |
| SPIRIT [17] |
Maugans |
In-depth interview with guided questions |
No |
Low |
MD interview assessment |
| Spiritual Transformation Scale (STS) [16] |
Cole et al. |
Two factors: Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Decline |
Yes |
Moderate |
Forty items. Unique to assessing change in spiritual experience post–cancer diagnosis. |
References
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Puchalski C, Romer AL: Taking a spiritual history allows clinicians to understand patients more fully. J Palliat Med 3(1): 129-137, 2000.
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Sherman AC, Plante TG, Simonton S, et al.: A multidimensional measure of religious involvement for cancer patients: the Duke Religious Index. Support Care Cancer 8 (2): 102-9, 2000.
[PUBMED Abstract]
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Holland JC, Kash KM, Passik S, et al.: A brief spiritual beliefs inventory for use in quality of life research in life-threatening illness. Psychooncology 7 (6): 460-9, 1998 Nov-Dec.
[PUBMED Abstract]
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Pargament KI, Smith BW, Koenig HG, et al.: Patterns of positive and negative religious coping with major life stressors. J Sci Study Relig 37 (4): 710-24, 1998.
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Brady MJ, Peterman AH, Fitchett G, et al.: A case for including spirituality in quality of life measurement in oncology. Psychooncology 8 (5): 417-28, 1999 Sep-Oct.
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Cella DF, Tulsky DS, Gray G, et al.: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure. J Clin Oncol 11 (3): 570-9, 1993.
[PUBMED Abstract]
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Peterman AH, Fitchett G, Brady MJ, et al.: Measuring spiritual well-being in people with cancer: the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy--Spiritual Well-being Scale (FACIT-Sp). Ann Behav Med 24 (1): 49-58, 2002 Winter.
[PUBMED Abstract]
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Cole BS, Hopkins CM, Tisak J, et al.: Assessing spiritual growth and spiritual decline following a diagnosis of cancer: reliability and validity of the spiritual transformation scale. Psychooncology 17 (2): 112-21, 2008.
[PUBMED Abstract]
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Maugans TA: The SPIRITual history. Arch Fam Med 5 (1): 11-6, 1996.
[PUBMED Abstract]
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Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research: A Report of the Fetzer Institute/National Institute on Aging Working Group. Kalamazoo, Mich: Fetzer Institute, 1999.
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