Engagement of Patients With Chronic Diseases in Spiritual and Secular Forms of Practice: Results with the Shortened SpREUK-P SF17 Questionnaire.
Context: Research provides hints that organized religious activities are associated with better rates of survival, at least for healthy individuals. Specific religious activities such as church attendance, however, may or may not be as relevant to health in secular societies compared to societies wi...
| Publicado en: | Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 28 - 39 |
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InnoVisions Professional Media
Feb/Mar2012
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=108118921&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 108118921 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 1546993X 1C2O jtl: Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal issn: 1546993X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb/Mar2012 vid: 11 iid: 1 pid: 65582 pub: InnoVisions Professional Media place: Eagan, Minnesota artinfo: ui: 108118921 108118921 2011572555 108118921 ppf: 28 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Engagement of Patients With Chronic Diseases in Spiritual and Secular Forms of Practice: Results with the Shortened SpREUK-P SF17 Questionnaire. aug: au: Büssing, Arndt Reiser, Franz Michalsen, Andreas Baumann, Klaus affil: Head of Department of Quality of Life, Spirituality and Coping, Center of Integrative Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany sug: subj: Chronic Disease Psychosocial Factors Questionnaires Spirituality Adult Coefficient alpha Data Analysis Software External Validity Female Human Instrument Validation Male Middle Age Mind Body Techniques Outpatients Pearson's Correlation Coefficient Regression Religion and Religions Step-Wise Multiple Regression Surveys Validation Studies Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: Context: Research provides hints that organized religious activities are associated with better rates of survival, at least for healthy individuals. Specific religious activities such as church attendance, however, may or may not be as relevant to health in secular societies compared to societies with vital religiosity. Regardless of the relevance of church attendance, researchers also have to ask whether other, nonorganized forms of spiritual engagement are relevant to health. To address this question in new studies, researchers must rely on instruments with a broader conceptualizations of spiritual practices than just church attendance. Objective: To analyze the external validity of the SpREUK-P SF17 (SpREUK is an acronym of the German translation of 'Spiritual and Religious Attitudes in Dealing with Illness'), a modified version of the SpREUK-P (practices), which may be suited particularly to secular societies because of its wide range of addressed religious and secular activities. Design: For the current study, the research team relied on data obtained in prior and current studies that used the SpREUK-P. To improve that questionnaire's relevance for future health-service research, the team developed a modified version ofthat practices survey, the SpREUK-P SF17 that measures the frequency of engagement in distinct forms of spirituality. For this analysis, 576 patients with chronic diseases were enrolled. Participants: The participants came from different recruiting centers: the Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine at the Essen-Mitte Clinics (52%), the Orthopedic Clinic in Bad Bocklet and Baumrain Clinic in Bad Berleburg (16%), the Pain Outpatient Clinic and Tumor Outpatient Clinic of the Communal Hospital Herdecke (16%), the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Clinic Freiburg (15%), and other (1%). Outcome Measures: The research team performed reliability (Cronbach's coefficient a) and factor analyses (principal component analysis using varimax rotation with Kaiser's normalization), analyses of variance, crosstabulation (Pearson's x), correlation and regression analyses with SPSS 17.0 for Windows (SPSS GmbH Software, Munich). The team judged P<.05 as significant. With respect to the correlation analyses, the team regarded r<0.5 as a strong correlation, an r between 0.3 and 0.5 as a moderate correlation, an r between 0.2 and 0.3 as a weak correlation, and r<0.2 as no or a negligible correlation. Results: The research team confirmed that the modified, 17-item version of the questionnaire, the SpREUK-P SF17, is a valid and reliable instrument that differentiates 5 main factors (i.e., religious practices; humanistic practices; existential practices; gratitude/reverence; mind-body practices) with good internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach's a ranges from 0.72 to 0.82): (1) religious practices, (2) humanistic practices, (3) existential practices; (4) gratitude or reverence, and (5) (spiritual) mindbody practices. Conclusions: Researchers can address both religious and secular forms of spirituality with a generic instrument that has no bias for or against a particular religious commitment. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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