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	Scala del Benessere Spirituale	Sottoscala FACIT-Palliative
Campo	Cure palliative	Cure palliative
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1982	2002
Ideatore	Raymond F. Paloutzian and Craig W. Ellison	Peterman, Fitchett, Brady, and colleagues (funded by National Cancer Institute)
Tipo	Self-report	Self-report
Fonte seminale	Paloutzian, R. F., & Ellison, C. W. (1982). Loneliness, spiritual well-being, and the quality of life. In L. A. Peplau & D. Perlman (Eds.), Loneliness: A sourcebook of current theory, research and therapy (pp. 224–237). Wiley.	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.
Alias	SWBS	FACIT-Pal, FACIT-Palliative, FACIT-Spiritual subscale
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS) is a 20-item self-report measure of spiritual well-being encompassing both religious faith and existential meaning—two dimensions critical to quality of life at end-of-life. Developed by Paloutzian and Ellison in 1982, the SWBS has become a cornerstone assessment tool in palliative care, chaplaincy, and oncology to identify unmet spiritual needs, guide supportive interventions, and evaluate the impact of spiritual care programs on patient outcomes.	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.