Abstract
SummaryObjectivesSpirituality is related to the care and the quality of life of cancer patients. Thus, it is very important to assess their needs. The objective of this study was the translation and cultural adjustment of the Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP) questionnaire to the Brazilian Portuguese language.MethodologyThe translation and cultural adjustment of the SNAP questionnaire involved six stages: backtranslation, revision of backtranslation, translation to the original language and adjustments, pre-test on ten patients, and test and retest with 30 patients after three weeks. Adult patients, with a solid tumour and literate with a minimum of four years schooling were included. For analysis and consistency we used the calculation of the Cronbach alpha coefficient and the Pearson linear correlation.ResultsThe final questionnaire had some language and content adjustments compared to the original version in English. The correlation analysis of each item with the total score of the questionnaire showed coefficients above 0.99. The calculation of the Cronbach alpha coefficient was 0.9. The calculation of the Pearson linear correlation with the test and retest of the questionnaire was equal to 0.95.ConclusionThe SNAP questionnaire translated into Brazilian Portuguese is adequately reliable and consistent. This instrument allows adequate access to spiritual needs and can help patient care.
Highlights
Spirituality can be defined as the relationship of a person with what he/she considers to be transcendent and can happen in different ways, one of them being religion [1]
A systematic review published in 2011 reports 35 instruments validated for the assessment of spirituality and four with the concept of need of spirituality: Spiritual Need Inventory (SNI) - assessed for patients near the end of life, Spiritual Interests Related to Illness Tool (SpIRIT) - developed for patients and family members, Spiritual Needs Scale (SNS) - Korean questionnaire with 26 items validated by Yong et al [6], and the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpQN) - developed for patients with chronic diseases [7]
Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP) assesses the spiritual need of patients based on three subscales: psychosocial, spiritual (13 items), and religious—containing closed questions that assess the need of the patients in these items
Summary
Spirituality can be defined as the relationship of a person with what he/she considers to be transcendent and can happen in different ways, one of them being religion [1]. A systematic review published in 2011 reports 35 instruments validated for the assessment of spirituality and four with the concept of need of spirituality: Spiritual Need Inventory (SNI) - assessed for patients near the end of life, Spiritual Interests Related to Illness Tool (SpIRIT) - developed for patients and family members, Spiritual Needs Scale (SNS) - Korean questionnaire with 26 items validated by Yong et al [6], and the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (SpQN) - developed for patients with chronic diseases [7] Another systematic revision of spirituality questionnaires in the Portuguese language shows the existence of 20 instruments, 15 of which are translated from other languages, but without the different instruments of spiritual need [8]
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