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Duke Religion Index in Portuguese

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Duke religious index; DUREL; Escala de religiosidade da universidade de Duke; Índice de religiosidade de Duke; PDUREL

Definition

The Duke Religion Index (DUREL) is a five-item measure of religious involvement, which yields three subscales: (1) organizational religious behavior (1 item), (2) nonorganizational religious behavior (1 item), and (3) intrinsic religious motivation (three items drawn from the Hoge’s 10-item intrinsic religiosity scale). Response options are on a 5- or 6-point Likert scale.

This scale is used worldwide for assessing religiousness in scientific studies. Since DUREL is a short and easy instrument, it can be used in a great variety of studies such as epidemiological studies and/or clinical trials. A Portuguese version of DUREL is available and validated.

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The interface between religiousness/spirituality (S/R) and health has been extensively investigated in the last decades (Koenig 2000).

Spirituality is defined by Koenig (Koenig et al. 2001)...

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  1. School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

    Giancarlo Lucchetti & Alessandra Lamas Granero Lucchetti

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  1. Giancarlo Lucchetti
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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy

    Filomena Maggino

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  1. Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Tanja van der Lippe

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Lucchetti, G., Lamas Granero Lucchetti, A. (2021). Duke Religion Index in Portuguese. In: Maggino, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_4066-2

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