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Spiritual and Religious Attitudes in Dealing with Illness in Polish Patients with Chronic Diseases: Validation of the Polish Version of the SpREUK Questionnaire

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Although providing religious/spiritual (SpR) support to sick has received in Poland growing attention in the scientific literature, little has been written about how to measure whether patients are in search for SpR or may already have trust in such a resource helpful to cope with disease. The Polish version of the SpREUK questionnaire was validated in a sample of 275 patients with chronic diseases. Both explorative and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the already established three subscales, i.e., Search, Trust, and Reflection, with good internal consistency coefficients (Cronbach’s α between .74 and .91). The instrument appears to be a good choice to be used in both secular and religious societies.

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We are grateful to Iwona Pilchowska who performed the confirmatory factor analysis.

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  1. Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Integrative Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Gerhard-Kienle-Weg 4, 58313, Herdecke, Germany

    Arndt Büssing

  2. Faculty of Paedagogy, Cardinal Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland

    Kazimierz Franczak & Janusz Surzykiewicz

  3. Faculty for Religious Education, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany

    Janusz Surzykiewicz

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Arndt Büssing and Janusz Surzykiewicz would like to dedicate this manuscript to the memory of Kazimierz Franczak who started this study with us, but passed away during the process of data evaluation.

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Büssing, A., Franczak, K. & Surzykiewicz, J. Spiritual and Religious Attitudes in Dealing with Illness in Polish Patients with Chronic Diseases: Validation of the Polish Version of the SpREUK Questionnaire. J Relig Health 55, 67–84 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-014-9967-3

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