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).