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FACIT-Palliative Subscale
The FACIT-Palliative (FACIT-Pal) is a 12-item self-report subscale of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) family, specifically designed to measure spiritual well-being and existential meaning in patients with advanced cancer and life-limiting illness. Developed by Peterman and colleagues in 2002 and funded by the National Cancer Institute, the FACIT-Pal is embedded within larger FACIT instruments and has become a standard spiritual quality-of-life measure in oncology trials, hospice research, and palliative care programs internationally.
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- Peterman, A. H., Fitchett, G., Brady, M. J., Hernandez, L., & Cella, D. (2002). Measuring spiritual well-being in people with cancer: The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy–Spiritual Well-Being scale. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 24(1), 49–58. DOI: 10.1207/S15324796ABM2401_06 ↗
- Cella, D., Peterman, A., Passik, S., Jacobsen, P., & Breitbart, W. (2009). Progress toward guidelines for the management of fatigue. Oncology, 12(11A), 369–377. link ↗