AUTHOR=Pontual Alexandre Augusto de Deus , Tófoli Luís Fernando , Collares Carlos Fernando , Ramaekers Johannes G. , Corradi-Webster Clarissa Mendonça TITLE=The Setting Questionnaire for the Ayahuasca Experience: Questionnaire Development and Internal Structure JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.679016 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.679016 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
The growing interest in research on psychedelic consumption in naturalistic contexts and their possible medical and therapeutic benefits requires assessment of the relationships between the substance and the individual who consumes it (set) and its context of use (setting). This study provides a novel measurement scale for the setting of Ayahuasca consumption, the Setting Questionnaire for the Ayahuasca Experience (SQAE), and examines its psychometric properties. Construction of the scale began with a literature review, followed by interviews on 19 Ayahuasca users from different backgrounds and different consumption experience, and an online survey for quantitative data collection (