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Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India
OBJECTIVES: Spirituality has an impact on the quality of life of palliative care patients and it influences the way in which they experience their disease. Spiritual distress is a common issue among palliative care patients in India that is best assessed through a tool specifically designed for them...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9165459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35673385 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJPC_50_21 |
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author | Gielen, Joris Kashyap, Komal Singh, Suraj Pal Bhatnagar, Sushma Chaturvedi, Santosh K. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Spirituality has an impact on the quality of life of palliative care patients and it influences the way in which they experience their disease. Spiritual distress is a common issue among palliative care patients in India that is best assessed through a tool specifically designed for them. This study presents the findings of a psychometric assessment of SpiDiscI: a 16-item spiritual distress scale for Hindi speaking palliative care patients in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study used a non-experimental cross-sectional sample survey design. 400 cancer patients undergoing pain treatment at the pain and palliative care unit of a tertiary cancer hospital in New Delhi enrolled in the study and completed the study’s questionnaire. The questionnaire contained a section on demographic information, a numerical rating scale (NRS) for pain, SpiDiscI, FACIT-Sp-12, and WHOQOL-BREF. A subset of 50 patients with stable pain completed SpiDiscI a 2(nd) time 2 weeks after the first administration of the scale to assess test-retest reliability. RESULTS: The scale’s internal consistency is very good (Cronbach’s Alpha 0.85). Spiritual distress scores ranged from 0 to 93.8 (mean 37.1, SD 23.6). Significant negative correlations between SpiDiScI and both FACIT-Sp-12 (R = –0.16, P = 0.001) and WHOQOL-BREF (R = –0.27, P < 0.001) confirmed convergent validity. There was no significant association with NRS pain scores (R = 0.06, P = 0.224). The highly significant association (R = 0.75, P < 0.001) of the scores on assessments 2 weeks apart confirmed test-retest reliability. CONCLUSION: SpiDiScI is a reliable and valid measure to assess spiritual distress in research among Hindi speaking palliative care patients in India. |
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spelling | pubmed-91654592022-06-06 Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India Gielen, Joris Kashyap, Komal Singh, Suraj Pal Bhatnagar, Sushma Chaturvedi, Santosh K. Indian J Palliat Care Original Article OBJECTIVES: Spirituality has an impact on the quality of life of palliative care patients and it influences the way in which they experience their disease. Spiritual distress is a common issue among palliative care patients in India that is best assessed through a tool specifically designed for them. This study presents the findings of a psychometric assessment of SpiDiscI: a 16-item spiritual distress scale for Hindi speaking palliative care patients in India. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study used a non-experimental cross-sectional sample survey design. 400 cancer patients undergoing pain treatment at the pain and palliative care unit of a tertiary cancer hospital in New Delhi enrolled in the study and completed the study’s questionnaire. The questionnaire contained a section on demographic information, a numerical rating scale (NRS) for pain, SpiDiscI, FACIT-Sp-12, and WHOQOL-BREF. A subset of 50 patients with stable pain completed SpiDiscI a 2(nd) time 2 weeks after the first administration of the scale to assess test-retest reliability. RESULTS: The scale’s internal consistency is very good (Cronbach’s Alpha 0.85). Spiritual distress scores ranged from 0 to 93.8 (mean 37.1, SD 23.6). Significant negative correlations between SpiDiScI and both FACIT-Sp-12 (R = –0.16, P = 0.001) and WHOQOL-BREF (R = –0.27, P < 0.001) confirmed convergent validity. There was no significant association with NRS pain scores (R = 0.06, P = 0.224). The highly significant association (R = 0.75, P < 0.001) of the scores on assessments 2 weeks apart confirmed test-retest reliability. CONCLUSION: SpiDiScI is a reliable and valid measure to assess spiritual distress in research among Hindi speaking palliative care patients in India. Scientific Scholar 2022-03-24 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9165459/ /pubmed/35673385 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJPC_50_21 Text en © 2022 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Indian Journal of Palliative Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gielen, Joris Kashyap, Komal Singh, Suraj Pal Bhatnagar, Sushma Chaturvedi, Santosh K. Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India |
title | Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India |
title_full | Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India |
title_fullStr | Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India |
title_short | Psychometric Assessment of SpiDiscI: Spiritual Distress Scale for Palliative Care Patients in India |
title_sort | psychometric assessment of spidisci: spiritual distress scale for palliative care patients in india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9165459/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35673385 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/IJPC_50_21 |
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