Spiritual Needs in Patients Suffering from Fibromyalgia

Table 1

Sociodemographic and other characteristics of 141 FMS patients.

Variables
Gender (%)
Female	95
Male	5
Age in years (mean ± SD)	57.8±10.2
Disease duration (mean ± SD)	14.1±10.1
Living status (%)
Living with a partner (married or not)	72.5
Living alone (single, divorced, widowed)	27.5
Educational level (%)
Low (primary school)/none	42.1
Medium (secondary school equivalent)	36.1
High (high school)	12.0
Other	9.8
Religious orientation (%)
Christian	73.3
Other	6.0
None	20.7
Spiritual/religious self-categorization (%)
R+S+ religious and spiritual	18.2
R+S− religious but not spiritual	22.7
R−S+ not religious but spiritual	19.7
R−S− neither religious nor spiritual	39.4