Journal of palliative medicine
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J Palliat Med
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Unmet spiritual needs have been associated with decreased patient ratings of quality of care, satisfaction, and quality of life. Few instruments exist to measure spiritual needs particularly among non-English speaking patients in the U.S. ⋯ The Chinese SNAP is an internally consistent and reliable instrument for measuring spiritual needs. The apparent lack of correlation between the SNAP score and the question on unmet spiritual needs may suggest that the SNAP captures patient needs considered by Westerners to be spiritual but that Chinese patients might not readily describe as spiritual.