Table 7. Continued.
Answers reflect Agree or Strongly Agree scores only Frequency Percentage
except for questions that are reverse score negatively
worded items. These items were scored disagree or
strongly agree.
 The following questions were scored using only the response always or almost always
(38) I examine my actions to see if they reflect my 49 42.6
 values.
The following question was scored 1-7 with "7" being the most spiritual. Scoring for this
question used response 5,6,7.
(39) How spiritual a person do you consider yourself? 50 66.9


Table 8. Frequencies and Percentages Questions that Indicated Ratings for General
 Health, and Bodily Pain as Self-reported on the Short Form-36 Health Survey
 questionnaire (N=115).
Questions Frequency Percentage
(1) In general would you say your health is: 94 81.73
 response: excellent, very good, good

(2) Compared to one year ago how would you rate
 your health in general now?
 Much better 9 7.83
 Somewhat better 18 15.65
 About the same 61 53.04
 Somewhat worse now 23 20.00
 Much worse now 4 3.48

(7) How much bodily pain have you had during
 the past 4 weeks?
 No response 2 1.74
 None 0 0
 Very Mild 14 12.17
 Moderate 36 31.30
 Severe 46 40.00
 Very Severe 17 14.78

 Additional findings included the increased use of regional analgesic techniques

during the last six months of this research. Concurrent research by another investigator

enrolled some of these same participants receiving total knee arthroplasty in a study using

femoral nerve sheath technique to treat postoperative pain. This investigator examined