In the paper recently published by the whoqol srpb group, initial quantitative survey data was presented. Introducing the whoqol instruments the constitution of the world health organization who defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing not merely the absence of. Srpb is assessed using the world health organizations qol instrument the whoqol, where eight additional facets were included to more fully address these issues as they pertain to qol, along with physical, social. The srpb domain of the whoqolsrpb bref skevington et al. This paper focuses on the further development of the domain of srpb with respect to work done toward developing two new whoqol modules. Whoqol and spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs srpb. The english version of the 9item srpb demonstrated a cronbachs alpha of 0. The whoqol six domain scores denote an individuals perception of quality of life in the following.
Advance articles special issues supplements virtual collection online only articles international spotlight free editors choice free feature articles. The whoqolsrpb has been a useful module to measure aspects of qol related to spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs, but recent research has pointed to potential problems. Whoqol srpb users manual scoring and coding overview the whoqol is a quality of life assessment developed by the whoqol group with fifteen international field centres, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable crossculturally. Pdf psychometric properties of the whoqolsrpb bref. The needs of islamic healthrelated quality of life. The whoqol srpb fieldtest instrument exists of 32 questions, covering quality of life aspects related to spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs srpb. Each srpb facet, like the whoqol 100, has four items to represent these facets. This instrument has been developed from an extensive pilot test of 105 questions in 18 centres around the world. She is an associate editor of the journal of eating disorders and on the editorial board of the eating disorders journal. Who the world health organization quality of life whoqol.
To test the reliability and the discriminant and convergent validity of the abbreviated brazilian portuguese world health. Psychometric properties of the whoqolsrpb bref, brazilian. Whoqol spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs. The 9item srpb assessment showed good internal consistency alpha 0. A crosscultural study of spirituality, religion, and. World health organization quality of life instruments. Pdf valid assessment of spiritual quality of life with. This paper reports on an international study in 18 countries n 5 0 8 7 to observe how spirituality, religion and personal beliefs srpb relate to quality of life qol. World health organization quality of life instruments whoqolbref whoqolbref is an abbreviated generic quality of life scale developed through the world health organization. To create a short form for widespread use in global quality of life research, skevington and colleagues 20 developed a nineitem sqol subscale sqol9 consisting of one item from each of the eight whoqol srpb facets plus a ninth item from the single spiritual facet of the original whoqol 100. Srpb was included because it was seen to be relevant to patients, health professionals.