The National Institutes of Health Measure of Healing Experience of All Life Stressors

Completed

Conditions studied: Severe Chronic Illness

In brief

NIH-Healing Experience in All Life Stressors (NIH-HEALS) is a 35 item self-report questionnaire developed by the NIH Clinical Center Pain and Palliative care. It assesses an individual's mechanisms for coping as a means to reach "healing" during life's difficult situations and/or life limiting challenges. The factorial structure of the tool has been recently re-examined with 200 patients. The three main factors are: Connection (including religious, spiritual, interpersonal), Reflection/ Introspection, and Trust/Acceptance.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03871270

Run by

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

People needed

200

Starts

2017-06-15

Expected to finish

2017-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age of 18 or above
• The ability to read and write in English
• The presence or history of a serious and/or life-threatening disease

Where it is running

• National Institute of Health — Bethesda, Maryland, United States

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