Table 5.
Descriptive analysis of the answers for items on the Spiritual Well-Being Scale given by patients initiating chemotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2021 (n = 91).
| Items | Likert Scale | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1. My relationship with God contributes to my sense of well-being | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 89 |
| 2. I believe that God loves me and cares about me | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 87 |
| 3. I feel most fulfilled when I am in close communion with God | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 83 |
| 4. My relationship with God helps me not to feel lonely | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 89 |
| 5. I believe that God is concerned about my problems | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 87 |
| 6. I have a personally meaningful relationship with God | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 75 |
| 7I. I do not have a personally satisfying relationship with God | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 79 |
| 8I. I do not find much satisfaction in private prayer with God | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 79 |
| 9I. I do not get much personal strength and support from my God | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 83 |
| 10I. I believe that God is impersonal and not interested in my daily situations | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 83 |
| 11. I feel a sense of well-being about the direction my life is headed in | 10 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 9 | 46 |
| 12. I feel very fulfilled and satisfied with life | 6 | 2 | 19 | 8 | 14 | 42 |
| 13I. Life does not have much meaning | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 77 |
| 14I. I do not enjoy much about life | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 81 |
| 15I. I feel good about my future | 10 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 53 |
| 16I. I feel that life is full of conflict and unhappiness | 15 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 47 |
| 17. I feel that life is a positive experience | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 77 |
| 18I. I feel unsettled about my future | 33 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 25 |
| 19. I believe there is some real purpose for my life | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 84 |
| 20I. I do not know who I am, where I came from, or where I am going | 58 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
I: indicates the negative items, whose score was inverted. The religious well-being subscale is the first half (from item 1 to 10), and the existential well-being subscale is the second half (from item 11 to 20).