Table 1. Assessment of Religion and Spirituality in Cancer Patients
| Tool | Developer | Purpose/ Focus/ Subscale (No.) | Specific to Cancer Patients? | Level of Psychometric Development | Length/ Other Characteristics/ Comments |
| Systems of Belief Inventory (SBI-15R) [7] | Holland et al. | Two factors: Beliefs/experience (10); religious social support (5) | Yes | High | Four items assume belief in God |
| DRI/DUREL [5] | Sherman et al. | Religious involvement (5) | Yes | Moderate | |
| FACIT-Sp [10,15] | Brady et al.; Peterman | Two factors: Meaning & peace (8), faith (4) | Yes | High. Limited cross-validation data. | Part of FACT-G quality-of-life battery [11] |
| Brief R-COPE [8] | Pargament et al. | Two factors: Positive coping; negative coping/distress | No | Very High | |
| Fetzer Multidimensional Scale [21] | Fetzer | Multiple subscales | No | High. Under development. | |
| FICA: Spiritual history [1] | Puchalski et al. | Brief spiritual history | No | Low | MD interview assessment |
| SPIRIT [19] | Maugans | In-depth interview with guided questions | No | Low | MD interview assessment |
| Spiritual Transformation Scale (STS) [18] | Cole et al. | Two factors: Spiritual Growth and Spiritual Decline | Yes | Moderate | Forty items. Unique to assessing change in spiritual experience post–cancer diagnosis. |
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