Spiritual Needs of PTSD Patients in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Quantitative Pilot Study

Glavas, Andrijana; Jors, Karin; Büssing, Arndt; Baumann, Klaus

doi:10.24869/psyd.2017.282

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“…Family Support Needs was also found to be relevant in the Brazilian PLHIV sample, confirming the former pilot test results; this was different from other countries, where SpNQ was previously translated Glavas et al 2017;Hatamipour et al 2018;Offenbaecher et al 2013), where these items were used only as 'informative' items because of their lack of a 'spiritual' connotation. Data about the spiritual needs of PLHIV in other countries were not found, making it impossible to compare data.…”

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“…The Polynesian version (Nuraeni et al 2015) tested 19 items and for the Iranian and New Zealand English Languages translation there is no information about the tested items (Nejat et al 2016); however, all these translations processes included the four-factor structure: Religious Needs, Existential Needs, Inner Peace Needs, and Giving/Generativity Needs. In the Croatian Language translation process (Glavas et al 2017) version 20 + 3 items was used to calculate the five factor scales, and, as an additional "non-spiritual" category, Social Support Needs (which is like our Family Support Needs scale). For the Persian version, the 19-item version was tested, and the five factors were tested and approved.…”

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Transcultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of Portuguese Version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) Among HIV Positive Patients in Brazil

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The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ), originally written in the German language, was translated and validated into 11 languages, but not Latin languages, such as Brazilian Portuguese. This study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of the SpNQ after translation and transcultural adaptation to the Portuguese language, identifying unmet spiritual needs in a sample of patients living with HIV in Brazil. This pioneering study conformed a four-factor structure of 20 items, differentiating Religious Needs (α = 0.887), Giving/Generativity Needs (α = 0.848), Inner Peace (α = 0.813) and a new item: Family Support Needs (α = 0.778). The Brazilian version of the SpNQ (SpNQ-BR) had good internal validity criteria and can be used for research of the spiritual needs for Brazilian patients. The cross-cultural adaptation and comparison with previous studies showed that the SpNQ is sensitive to the cultural characteristics of different countries.

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Transcultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of Portuguese Version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) Among HIV Positive Patients in Brazil

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“…The evaluation of spiritual needs by SpNQ has proved valuable in varied cultural contexts: China (Büssing et al 2013), Croatia (Glavas et al 2017), Poland (Büssing et al 2015), Indonesia (Nuraeni et al 2015), Iran (Nejat et al 2016), Brazil (Valente et al 2018), and Lithuania (Riklikienė et al 2019). The instrument has been tested in different samples for disease: chronic pain (Büssing et al 2009;2015, p. 11), post-traumatic stress (Glavas et al 2017), cancer (Büssing et al 2010;Riklikienė et al 2019) and HIV+ patients (Valente et al 2018;Silva et al). This study verified the psychometric properties of SpNQ items through item response theory (IRT), an innovative contribution to the SpNQ validity studies, considering the relevance of questionnaires evaluating spiritual needs and their associated constructs.…”

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Item Response Theory Applied to the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Portuguese

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Lima

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The item response theory (IRT), or latent trace theory, is based on a set of mathematical models to complement the qualitative analysis of the items in a given questionnaire. This study analyzes the items of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in the Portuguese version, applied to HIV+ patients, with R Studio 3.4.1, mirt statistical package, to find out if the items of the SpNQ possess appropriate psychometric qualities to discriminate between respondents as to the probability of marking one answer and not another, in the same item, showing whether or not the questionnaire is biased towards a pattern of response desired by the researcher. The parameters of discrimination, difficulty, information, and the characteristic curve of the items are evaluated. The reliable items to measure the constructs of each of the five dimensions of the SpNQ of this HIV+ sample (Religious Needs; Inner Peace and Family Support Needs; Existential Needs; Social Recognition Needs; and Time Domain Needs) are presented, as well as the most likely response categories, depending on the latent trace level of the individuals. The questionnaire items showed satisfactory discrimination and variability of difficulty, confirming the good psychometric quality of SpNQ.Religions 2020, 11, 139 2 of 13 or not there is a specific need within four dimensions (social, emotional, existential, and religious), and how strong it is, using a 4-step scale. It differentiates four main dimensions, i.e., religious needs, existential needs, inner peace needs, and giving/generativity needs (Büssing et al. 2010. The SpNQ was validated into Portuguese (Valente et al. 2018) in a sample of HIV+ patients, presenting internal consistency ranging from 0.51 to 0.83.SpNQ has already been translated and validated in 12 studies. However, the psychometric analyses performed so far were based only on the classical theory of tests (CTT), based on exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis, all conventional quantitative approaches to test the reliability and validity of a scale based on its items (Cappelleri et al. 2014;Sartes and de Souza-Formigoni 2013). Differently, the present study sought to evaluate the SpNQ items from the perspective of IRT, in order to obtain evidence of complementary validity of the characteristics of the items that make up the instrument-in this case, in Portuguese-to answer this main question: Do the items of the SpNQ questionnaire validated in Portuguese possess appropriate psychometric qualities to discriminate between respondents as to the probability of marking one answer and not another, in the same item, showing whether or not the questionnaire is biased towards a pattern of responses desired by the researcher?The SpNQ was validated in different countries and different socio-cultural contexts of its various applications would benefit from the results of this analysis, through the calculation of the guarantee of accuracy and differentiation of the patients' responses.

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“…However, the diversity of translated versions caused some doubt in choosing the model as validation of instrument in other countries used a five factor scale: Religious needs, existential needs, inner peace needs, giving/generativity and forgiveness needs, and adding an additional (independent) category called family support needs [35]. Also, the Croatian [38] version of SpNQ-23 used an additional “non-spiritual” category—social support needs.…”

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“…Finally, SpNQ is intended to collect the information on patient’s spiritual concerns while also being simple in language and content, to start communication with patients about their spirituality and their unmet needs and thus enabling to develop spiritual care plan to address their unmet needs. The SpNQ was translated and validated in the different languages and used in the following countries: Germany [6,27,33,34], Portugal [35], Poland [36], China [37], Croatia [38], Pakistan [39], Brazil [35], Indonesia [40,41], Iran [42,43], etc. Such wide application of the tool, apart from in Anglo-Saxon countries, is usually promising for successful instrument validation in different culture and language.…”

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Translation, Cultural, and Clinical Validation of the Lithuanian Version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire among Hospitalized Cancer Patients

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Background and Objectives: The aim was to translate and validate the spiritual needs questionnaire for its use in the Lithuanian context. Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional survey design was applied. Structural individual interview method (face-to-face) was employed to collect data on spiritual needs of cancer patients. Responses were obtained from 247 patients hospitalized in nursing and supportive treatment units at public hospitals. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Statistics) version 22.0. To assess the psychometric properties of the scale, Cronbach’s alpha, split half test, average inter-item, and item-total correlations were calculated for internal consistency. Exploratory factor analysis was used to confirm the construct validity of the translated version of instrument. Results: Lithuanian version of The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (27 items) had a good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.94). The existential and connectedness with family needs factor had the lowest Cronbach’s alpha (0.71) in relation to other factors: Religious needs (0.93), giving/generativity and forgiveness needs (0.88), and inner peace needs (0.74). Split-half test showed strong relationship between the both halves of the test. The item difficulty (1.47 (mean value)/3) was 0.49; while all values were in acceptable range from 0.20 to 0.80. Item-total correlations were inspected for the items in each of the four SpNQ-27 factors. Conclusions: The Lithuanian version of Spiritual needs questionnaire demonstrated adequate psychometric properties of the instrument. This instrument, as a screening tool and conversational model, is recommended for clinicians in health care practice to identify patients with spiritual needs.

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Spiritual Needs of PTSD Patients in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Quantitative Pilot Study

Cited by 17 publications

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Transcultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of Portuguese Version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) Among HIV Positive Patients in Brazil

Transcultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of Portuguese Version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) Among HIV Positive Patients in Brazil

Item Response Theory Applied to the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) in Portuguese

Translation, Cultural, and Clinical Validation of the Lithuanian Version of the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire among Hospitalized Cancer Patients

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