Engagement of patients in religious and spiritual practices: Confirmatory results with the SpREUK-P 1.1 questionnaire as a tool of quality of life research

Arndt Büssing; Peter F Matthiessen; Thomas Ostermann

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-3-53

Table 2 Mean values of the items from SpREUK-P 1.1 and reliability parameters

From: Engagement of patients in religious and spiritual practices: Confirmatory results with the SpREUK-P 1.1 questionnaire as a tool of quality of life research

	Factors and Items	Mean value (Score 0–3)	SD	Factor load	Item difficulty	Corrected Item-Total correlation	Alpha if Item deleted (α = 0.8517)
	Conventional Religious Practice (α = 0.8642)
P2	go to church:	1.30	0.94	0.794	0.44	0.116	0.858
P20	participate in religious events:	0.87	0.98	0.779	0.29	0.266	0.851
P19	religious symbols are important in private area	1.37	1.03	0.772	0.46	0.414	0.846
P1	pray:	1.66	0.99	0.692	0.55	0.499	0.843
	Existentialistic Practice (α = 0.7797)
P13	work on my self-realization:	1.65	0.80	0.782	0.55	0.318	0.849
P14	work on my spiritual development:	2.01	0.75	0.667	0.67	0.483	0.844
P11	try to get insight (also into myself):	2.07	0.75	0.606	0.69	0.682	0.838
P15	try to achieve a higher level of consciousness:	1.23	0.91	0.568	0.41	0.531	0.842
P10	reflect upon the meaning of life:	2.08	0.75	0.520	0.70	0.460	0.845
P16	try to convey positive values & convictions to others:	1.91	0.77	0.436	0.64	0.432	0.846
	Unconventional Spiritual Practice (α = 0.7535)
P7	work on a body-mind discipline:	0.92	1.04	0.768	0.31	0.450	0.844
P4	meditate:	0.91	0.93	0.723	0.31	0.471	0.844
P8	perform distinct rituals:	0.99	1.02	0.682	0.33	0.577	0.839
P6	read religious/spiritual books:	1.24	1.15	0.595	0.41	0.371	0.826
P5	recite distinct (i.e. holy) texts:	0.71	0.86	0.534	0.24	0.483	0.844
	Humanistic Practice (α = 0.7907)
P23	try to consider the needs of others:	2.31	0.56	0.774	0.77	0.319	0.849
P22	try to help others:	2.41	0.58	0.746	0.80	0.355	0.848
P24	thoughts are with those in need:	1.98	0.70	0.717	0.66	0.370	0.848
P25	try to do good:	2.30	0.58	0.650	0.77	0.302	0.849
P26	feel connected with others:	2.26	0.66	0.574	0.75	0.340	0.848
P3	try make an effort for other people:	2.21	0.70	0.445	0.74	0.499	0.844
	Nature-oriented Practice (α = 0.5853)
P17	try to be aware of how I treat the world around:	2.42	0.60	0.725	0.80	0.396	0.847
P18	try to have a healing effect on environment:	1.85	0.82	0.616	0.62	0.519	0.843
P9	turn to nature:	2.03	0.81	0.551	0.68	0.244	0.851
	Guardian Angel
P21x	belief in (my) Guardian Angel:	1.79	1.03	0.584	0.60	0.377	0.848

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