The Spiritual Needs Questionnaire
Location: Germany
Organisation(s): Prof. Arndt Büssing, Witten/Herdecke University
Website: https://tinyurl.com/yvfhvsju
Available language(s): German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Danish, Lithuanian, Croatian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Farsi (Iran)
Date of development: 2010
Type of tool: Questionnaire
Purpose: identification of spiritual needs of personsliving with chronic diseases, in elderly living in retirementhomes, healthy (stressed) persons, and adolescents with chronic diseases and health conditions
Topic(s)covered: Spirituality issues related with end of life
Overview
For many persons confronted with chronic diseases, spirituality/religiosity is an important resource for coping. However, patients often report unmet psychosocial and spiritualneeds in social and health care contexts. The questionnaire helps the respondent identifying his/her spiritual needs and to discusswith others how to address them.
Reasons for selecting the practice and impact
The SpNQ was developed to assess patients´ unmet existential/spiritual needs in a structured and standardized way. It is first of all a resource- oriented diagnostic instrument that allows both, communication and documentation. Although conceived for a clinical setting, the questionnaire could also be used to support a conversation within the family context for planning support options
Impact:
The tool has so far been translated into numerous languages and is widely used as a valid and reliable instrument to assess a wide range of spiritual needs of patients with chronic diseases, elderly, adolescents, and healthy person.
See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8484079/
Contacts and additional information
Transferability
The practice is transferable since so far it has been translated in different languages and widely used as a valid and reliable instrument to assess the spiritual needs of patients with chronic diseases, elderly, adolescents and healthy persons. According to the author, the instrument is applicable also to non-religious persons who also have spiritual needs, particularly needs for inner peace and generativity while it is of relevance also for religious persons who score higher on explicit religious needs.
Note that the instrument is © Arndt Büssing and permission isrequired to copy or publish
Contact
http://www.spiritualneeds.net/