Development and validation of the questionnaire “Spiritual Needs in Palliative Care” in Finnish

Key Points

• This research aims to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess spiritual needs in palliative care patients in Finland.
• Designed the Spiritual Needs in Palliative Care (SNPC) questionnaire.
• Conducted validation tests with Finnish palliative care patients.
• Analyzed reliability and validity of the instrument.
• The SNPC demonstrated high validity for assessing spiritual needs.
• It showed strong reliability across different patient groups.
• The tool can effectively identify unmet spiritual needs.