Cure8 research brief
Spiritual and existential concerns can affect coping and quality of life for people with IBD, but these needs are rarely assessed systematically. Validated, culturally adapted questionnaires could help clinicians and researchers identify and address those needs.
Adult IBD patients, IBD clinicians and allied health professionals, and researchers interested in patient-reported outcomes, questionnaire validation, and psychosocial/spiritual aspects of IBD.
This paper lays out how researchers plan to adapt and test two tools that measure spiritual needs and illness interpretation in people with IBD using cognitive interview techniques.
Participants (patients and clinicians) will verbalize thoughts while completing the Italian questionnaires so researchers can identify confusing or irrelevant items and revise wording before formal psychometric testing.
The protocol emphasizes transparent translation steps, systematic item-level analysis, coder reliability checks, and the exploratory use of AI to help code de-identified interview text (with human oversight).
The manuscript does not present findings — it describes methods the authors will use to gather and analyze feedback to improve questionnaire content validity.
If you want tools that capture spiritual or existential concerns in IBD, this protocol aims to produce culturally adapted questionnaires that could later be validated and used in research or routine care. For now, there are no results to guide practice.
This record is a study protocol (validation/qualitative) published as an abstract in a journal; it does not report empirical results. The exploratory use of AI is limited to de-identified coding under human oversight and relates to methods, not findings.
Review the original publication for the complete reporting, methods, and context.
This Cure8 brief is based on source text from the linked article. Cure8 is informational only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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