Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale
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Tarih
2020
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Cambridge Univ Press
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Objective This study was conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale in Turkish nurses. Method This study was a psychometric design. A convenience sample of 249 nurses working at the Malatya Training Research Hospital completed a structured questionnaire including demographic characteristics and the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutics Scale (NSCTS) between August and October 2018. Principal components analysis, internal consistency reliability, and Cronbach's alpha were used to measure the psychometric properties of the items of the scale. Results In the evaluation of construct validity, identified one factor with eigenvalues greater than 1 explained 50.83% of the total variance. The Cronbach's alpha value of the scale is 0.86. Significance of results The present study provides evidence of NSCTS's validity, reliability, and acceptability. The scale can be used by Turkish nurses. This scale should be further evaluated with a larger sample in different regions in Turkey and various populations. The scale has potential applications for use both in research and as a screening tool in clinical settings.
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Anahtar Kelimeler
Nursing, Reliability, Spiritual care, Validity
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Palliative & Supportive Care
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Q3
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Q1
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18
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6
