The Development of an Instrument for Measuring Healing
Ann Fam Med Meza and Fahoome
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In Brief
The Development of an Instrument for Measuring Healing
James Peter Meza
, and colleagues
Background Healing is increasingly recognized as an important concept in medicine. There are, however, few tools available to researchers to measure healing. This project describes healing and tests a new scale to measure healing qualities.
What This Study Found The Self-Integration Scale is a valid and reliable measurement scale for attributes of healing.
Implications
- The Self-Integration Scale is one of the first attempts to measure healing in Western medical practice.
- The scale offers new possibilities for research in humanistic health care.