TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric Evaluation of the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale
AU - Mamier, Iris
AU - Taylor, Elizabeth Johnston
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2014.
PY - 2015/5/22
Y1 - 2015/5/22
N2 - To measure nurse-provided spiritual care, robust instrumentation is needed. This study psychometrically evaluated an instrument that operationalizes frequency of nurse-provided spiritual care, the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale (NSCTS). The 17-item NSCTS, with an established content validity index of 0.88, was administered online to registered nurses (RNs) in four hospitals. Responses from 554 RNs (24% response rate), most who identified as Christian, provided evidence for the NSCTS’ reliability and validity. Internal reliability was supported by an alpha coefficient of.93. Validity was evidenced by item-total correlations ranging from.40 to.80, low to modest direct correlations between the NSCTS and Daily Spiritual Experience Scale and Duke University Religiosity Index, and strong loadings between 0.41 and 0.84 on one factor (explaining 49.5% of the variance) during exploratory factor analysis.
AB - To measure nurse-provided spiritual care, robust instrumentation is needed. This study psychometrically evaluated an instrument that operationalizes frequency of nurse-provided spiritual care, the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale (NSCTS). The 17-item NSCTS, with an established content validity index of 0.88, was administered online to registered nurses (RNs) in four hospitals. Responses from 554 RNs (24% response rate), most who identified as Christian, provided evidence for the NSCTS’ reliability and validity. Internal reliability was supported by an alpha coefficient of.93. Validity was evidenced by item-total correlations ranging from.40 to.80, low to modest direct correlations between the NSCTS and Daily Spiritual Experience Scale and Duke University Religiosity Index, and strong loadings between 0.41 and 0.84 on one factor (explaining 49.5% of the variance) during exploratory factor analysis.
KW - instrument development
KW - instrumentation
KW - nursing
KW - spiritual care
KW - spirituality
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U2 - 10.1177/0193945914530191
DO - 10.1177/0193945914530191
M3 - Article
C2 - 24718038
SN - 0193-9459
VL - 37
SP - 679
EP - 694
JO - Western Journal of Nursing Research
JF - Western Journal of Nursing Research
IS - 5
ER -