Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpNQ)

Validity Evidence among HIV+ Patients in Northeast Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3376918
AutoresCassiano Augusto Oliveira Da Silva (0000-0002-8461-9104, Hospital Clementino Fraga, 58015-270 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil), Ana Paula Rodrigues Cavalcanti (0000-0003-4128-5885, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, autor correspondente), Kaline Da Silva Lima (0000-0001-6127-5815, Universidade Federal da Paraíba), Carlos André Macedo Cavalcanti (0000-0003-0685-5803, Universidade Federal da Paraíba), Tânia Cristina De Oliveira Valente (0000-0002-5735-5983, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Arndt Büssing (0000-0002-5025-7950, Witten/Herdecke University)
Ano2020
Volume11
Fascículo5
Páginas234
Data de publicação2020-05-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel11050234
OpenAlexW3021151302
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas18

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

Construct validity · Exploratory factor analysis · Psychometrics · Religiosity · Social support · Spirituality · Clinical Psychology · Medicine · Psychology · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religion, Society, and Development · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology