Table 3.

Rotated component matrix showing factor loading

Item number	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4
Psychosocial needs
1. Getting in touch with other patients with similar illnesses				0.781
2. Relaxation or stress management				0.701
3. Learning to cope with feelings of sadness
4. Sharing thoughts and feelings with one’s close people				0.751
5. Worries one has about one’s family				0.625
Spiritual needs			0.687
6. Finding meaning in one’s experience of illness?
7. Finding hope
8. Overcoming fears	0.76
9. Personal meditation or prayer practices
10. One’s relationship with God or something beyond oneself	0.774		0.685
11. Becoming closer to a community that shares one’s spiritual beliefs	0.798
12. Coping with any suffering one may be experiencing
13. The meaning and purpose of human life
14. Death and dying
15. Finding peace of mind
16. Resolving old disputes, hurts, or resentments among family or friends	0.784
17. Finding forgiveness			0.679
18. Making decisions about one’s medical treatment that are in keeping with your spiritual or religious beliefs?	0.705	0.773	0.851
Religious needs	0.772
19. Visits from clergy of one’s faith community?			0.829
20. Visits from fellow members of one’s faith community?		0.840	0.449
21. Religious rituals such as chant, prayer, lighting candles or incense, anointing, or communion?
22. Someone to bring you spiritual texts such as the Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Bible, Qur’an, and Pirith Books?		0.920
		0.901