Development and cultural adaptation of the HOPE spiritual assessment tool to Swedish (HOPE-SE): Expert evaluation in specialized palliative care
Johan Sundelöf, Bodil Holmberg, Christina Melin-Johansson · 2026
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Johan Sundelöf, Bodil Holmberg, and Christina Melin-Johansson adapt a spiritual assessment tool for Swedish end-of-life care, in work from 2026. The tool, named HOPE, helps clinicians ask about sources of hope, faith, and meaning. Sweden's secular, mixed culture calls for wording that fits more than churchgoing patients.
Starting from a plain Swedish translation of the eighteen-item original, the team simplified text, sharpened focus, and added prompts on non-religious concerns. The draft came to sixteen items. Eighteen experts in specialist comfort care, spanning nurses, doctors, and social workers, judged its clarity and coverage. The study reports how the adapted tool was received and where experts saw gaps.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Johan Sundelöf, Bodil Holmberg, Christina Melin-Johansson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |