Description

The WHOQOL-SRPB (World Health Organization Quality of Life – Spirituality, Religiousness, and Personal Beliefs) is an assessment tool for quality of life, focusing on aspects of spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs. This tool was designed as part of the broader WHOQOL scale, which aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation of quality of life and the various factors that influence it.

Data Analysis and Use

Analysis: The WHOQOL-SRPB examines how spirituality, religiousness, and personal beliefs affect an individual’s quality of life.
It evaluates various domains, such as meaning in life, hope, resilience in difficult situations, sense of well-being, and the impact of faith on health.
Use of Data: It is mainly used in research on quality of life, as well as in clinical practice to assess the influence of spiritual and religious beliefs on individuals’ well-being and health.
It can also be applied to measure treatment outcomes in patients dealing with chronic illnesses, mental disorders, or other health conditions influenced by their spiritual and religious life.

Purpose

The primary goal of the WHOQOL-SRPB is to understand how spiritual, religious, and personal beliefs contribute to an individual’s quality of life. It also aims to integrate the concept of spirituality into the overall evaluation of health and well-being, addressing an area often overlooked in traditional quality-of-life measurements.

Scoring

The WHOQOL-SRPB scale includes various questions that assess the spiritual and religious dimensions of quality of life. Each question is scored using a Likert scale, with responses ranging from “not at all” to “very much.” The overall score is calculated by combining responses across all questions, providing a general picture of how spirituality and religiousness influence quality of life.

References

WHOQOL Group. (2002). WHOQOL-SRPB Field-Test Instrument. World Health Organization.
Skevington, S. M., et al. (2004). The World Health Organization’s WHOQOL-SRPB Instrument: Cross-cultural Validation of the WHOQOL-SRPB Instrument. Quality of Life Research, 13(2), 285-299.
Fleck, M. P. A., et al. (2006). Spirituality, religion and personal beliefs are important components of quality of life in health and disease: results from the WHOQOL-SRPB field-test. Social Science & Medicine, 62(6), 1486-1497.