Research Article
Spiritual Needs in Patients Suffering from Fibromyalgia
Table 3
Spiritual needs and spiritual/religious self-categorization.
| | | Religious needs | Existential needs | Inner peace needs | Giving/generativity needs |
| All individuals | mean | 0.72 | 0.88 | 1.87 | 1.57 | SD | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.93 |
| R+S+ | mean | 1.23 | 1.20 | 1.84 | 1.46 | SD | 0.79 | 0.93 | 0.82 | 0.93 | R+S− | mean | 1.07 | 0.77 | 1.62 | 1.62 | SD | 0.79 | 0.65 | 0.74 | 0.95 | R−S+ | mean | 0.78 | 1.22 | 2.14 | 1.85 | SD | 0.72 | 0.76 | 0.62 | 0.82 | R−S− | mean | 0.25 | 0.63 | 1.90 | 1.43 | SD | 0.36 | 0.55 | 0.75 | 0.96 |
| value | | 17.2 | 6.0 | 2.3 | 1.3 | value | | <0.0001 | 0.001 | 0.085 | n.s. |
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Data refer to 127 to 130 responding patients.
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