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- Title
Validity and reliability of the spiritual care competency scale for oncology nurses in Taiwan.
- Authors
Fang, Hui-Fen; Susanti, Henny Dwi; Dlamini, Lindelwa Portia; Miao, Nae-Fang; Chung, Min-Huey
- Abstract
Background: Nurses must have spiritual competence to provide holistic patient care. Therefore, the designed instrument to assess nurses' competence could be a practical guide for health care professionals. This study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the spiritual care competency scale (SCCS) for oncology nurses in Taiwan. Methods: This study used a convenience sample from a regional teaching hospital in Taiwan from November 2017 to February 2019, who were asked to complete the SCCS. We employed scale-content validity index (S-CVI). Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was also used to evaluate the structural factor of SCCS. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) verified the construct validity of SCCS scale for oncology nurses in Taiwan. Test–retest reliability were also measured in this study at 2-week interval. Results: The average S-CVI of SCCS was 0.96. The EFA produced four factors of 27 items, such as professionalization, improving the quality of spiritual care, personal support, patient counseling and referral, attitude towards patient spirituality and communication, assessment, implementation providing and evaluation of spiritual care. Fitting the 27 items yielded an acceptable model fit; X2/df = 2.41, RMSEA = 0.08, GFI = 0.80, AGFI = 0.80, CFI = 0.92, IFI = 0.92, NFI = 0.90, RFI = 0.90, TLI = 0.91, SRMR = 0.06. Cronbach's alpha values were between 0.93 and 0.95, and the total Cronbach's alpha was 0.96. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) scores were between 0.43 and 0.88. Conclusions: The result of this study demonstrated satisfactory validity and reliability for the SCCS in the nursing field in Taiwan. Implications for practice in this study serves as a reference for effectively evaluating nursing competency in spiritual care.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; RELIABILITY (Personality trait); ONCOLOGY nursing; NATIONAL competency-based educational tests; RESEARCH evaluation; ACADEMIC medical centers; STATISTICAL reliability; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOMETRICS; MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques; CRONBACH'S alpha; NURSES; INTRACLASS correlation; STATISTICAL sampling; SPIRITUAL care (Medical care)
- Publication
BMC Palliative Care, 2022, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-684X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12904-022-00903-w