The assessment of spiritual well-being in cancer patients with advanced disease: which are its meaningful dimensions?

Table 4 Reference intervals of FACIT-Sp scores

		Newly diagnosed cancer patients ^a	Cancer Survivors	Terminal cancer patients ^a
	n	205	35,179	85
	Lower	0.0	3.3	0.0
Faith	Mean	7.3	11.8	9.7
	Upper	15.6	20.1	20.8
	n	205	35,179	NA
	Lower	8.3	8.2
Meaning	Mean	14	13.7
	Upper	19.7	19.2
	n	205	35,179	NA
	Lower	3.1	5.5
Peace	Mean	10.2	12
Peace	Upper	17.3	18.5
Spiritual Well Being	n	1272	NA	298
	Lower	15.9		3
	Mean	32.9		22.6
	Upper	50		42

^a: Means and limits of Faith, Meaning and Peace for newly diagnosed cancer patients were based on [24, 33] only, as [3] calculated such scores using different items and [34] didn’t provide this information. Conversely, all papers related to this group were used to calculate means and limits of Spiritual Well Being as the total score includes all the items. Only [42] was used to calculate means and limits of Faith for terminal cancer patients, while means and limits of Spiritual Well Being for this group were calculated using all papers

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