Spiritual Well-Being
SpWB was measured using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp-12) Questionnaire.19-21 The FACIT-Sp-12 measures subjects’ overall spiritual well-being and includes 2 subscales: meaning/peace and faith. The total score was obtained by summing all individual items (range, 0–44, with higher scores indicating greater spiritual well-being), and the subscale scores were obtained by summing all items in each domain. The meaning/peace subscale measures sense of meaning, peace and harmony, and purpose in life (range, 0–32). The faith subscale assesses the association between illness, faith, and spiritual beliefs as well as how one finds solace in one’s faith (range, 0–16).