Including the Spiritual Dimension in Multimodal Pain Therapy. Development and Validation of the Spiritual Distress and Resources Questionnaire (SDRQ)

Peng-Keller, Simon; Moergeli, Hanspeter; Hasenfratz, Karin; Naef, Rahel; Rettke, Horst; Hefti, René; Ljutow, André; Rittmeyer, Isabelle; Sprott, Haiko; Rufer, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.02.021

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Peng-Keller, S., Moergeli, H., Hasenfratz, K., Naef, R., Rettke, H., Hefti, R., Ljutow, A., Rittmeyer, I., Sprott, H., & Rufer, M. (2021). Including the Spiritual Dimension in Multimodal Pain Therapy. Development and Validation of the Spiritual Distress and Resources Questionnaire (SDRQ). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 62(4), 747–756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2021.02.021

Abstract

Context: Valid instruments for assessing spiritual resources and distress in pain therapy are scarce. The Spiritual Distress and Resources Questionnaire (SDRQ) was developed to fill this gap. Goals: The objective of this study was to investigate the SDRQ's psychometric properties. Methods: We presented the SDRQ to 219 patients with chronic pain conditions and examined its measurement properties, namely reliability and structural, convergent and discriminant validity. To investigate test–retest reliability, the SDRQ was presented a sec