RT Article
T1 Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ): Validity Evidence among HIV+ Patients in Northeast Brazil
JF Religions
VO 11
IS 3
A1 Oliveira da Silva, Cassiano Augusto
A1 Büssing, Arndt 1962-
A1 Macêdo Cavalcanti, Carlos André
A1 Rodrigues Cavalcanti, Ana Paula
A1 da Silva Lima, Kaline
A1 de Oliveira Valente, Tânia Cristina
A2 Büssing, Arndt 1962-
A2 Macêdo Cavalcanti, Carlos André
A2 Rodrigues Cavalcanti, Ana Paula
A2 da Silva Lima, Kaline
A2 de Oliveira Valente, Tânia Cristina
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1727128583
AB The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ) measures psychosocial, existential, and spiritual needs in clinical contexts. The objective was to confirm its factor structure in Brazil, comparing the results of its validation for Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro, under similar sampling conditions, in João Pessoa (Paraíba-Brazil), among 157 HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus)+ patients, most of them men (49%) (women = 35%; other = 16%), aged between 30 and 49 years (53.5%). From exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis a structure of five factors (or components) was obtained: Religious Needs (α = 0.73), Inner Peace and Family Support Needs, gathered (α = 0.64), Existential Needs (α = 0.49) and two new factors instead of “Giving/Generativity Needs”, being Social Recognition Needs (α = 0.54), referring explicitly to religious practices, with items formerly found in the Religious Needs factor, and Time Domain: Reflection and Clarification Needs (α = 0.57), which group only two items (item 4, “reflection on the past” (formerly in the Inner Peace component) and item 5, “resolution of outstanding problems”). The institutional religiosity perceived in the composition of the Social Recognition Needs component shows that these patients differentiate “religiosity” from “spirituality”. The Religious Needs component was formed with items from the “spirituality” construct definition. The most important component was Inner Peace and Family Support Needs, a relevant coping strategy in this disease. The results met proper validity criteria, and SpNQ proved to be sensitive and appropriate to situations of cultural and clinical diversity between samplings.
K1 HIV
K1 SpNQ
K1 Religiosity
K1 Spirituality
DO 10.3390/rel11050234