Spiritual Well-Being as a Component of Health-Related Quality of Life: The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy—Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp)
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FACIT / 381 S. Cottage Hill Avenue, Elmhurst, IL 60126, USA
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Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer
Center of Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social
Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 710 N.
Lake Shore Drive, Suite 729, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Religions 2011, 2(1), 77-94; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel2010077
Received: 22 November 2010 / Revised: 25 February 2011 / Accepted: 9 March 2011 / Published: 15 March 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measures of Spirituality/Religiosity)
The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual
Well-Being (FACIT-Sp-12) is a 12-item questionnaire that measures
spiritual well-being in people with cancer and other chronic illnesses.
Cancer patients, psychotherapists, and religious/spiritual experts
provided input on the development of the items. It was validated with a
large, ethnically diverse sample. It has been successfully used to
assess spiritual well-being across a wide range of religious traditions,
including those who identify themselves as “spiritual yet not
religious.” Part of the larger FACIT measurement system that assesses
multidimensional health related quality of life (HRQOL), the FACIT-Sp-12
has been translated and linguistically validated in 15 languages and
has been used in dozens of studies examining the relationships among
spiritual well-being, health, and adjustment to illness.
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Bredle, J.M.; Salsman, J.M.; Debb, S.M.; Arnold, B.J.; Cella, D. Spiritual Well-Being as a Component of Health-Related Quality of Life: The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy—Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp). Religions 2011, 2, 77-94.
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