Abstract
This study aimed to translate the Spiritual Perspectives Scale (SPS) into a Mandarin Chinese version (C-SPS) and evaluate its psychometric properties among 154 palliative care nurses from twelve community healthcare centres in Shanghai, China. Exploratory factor analysis suggested two factors (spiritually related activities and spiritual beliefs), accounting for 67.49% of the total variance. The Cronbach’s α of the total C-SPS score was 0.89, and its split-half coefficient (Spearman-Brown reliability coefficient) was 0.72. The C-SPS showed consistently acceptable psychometric properties of reliability and validity. It can be used to evaluate the level of spiritual perspectives of nurses in China.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number: 72104245), and the Special Project for Clinical Research of Health Care of Shanghai Municipal Health Commission (Grant Number: 201940092).
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Jing Cui was responsible for the study design, supervised the study, led the data collection, contacted experts to translate and revise the manuscript, and approval of the final draft. Fengyi Chen and Yi Zhang conducted the data collection and analysis, interpretation of findings, and drafted the manuscript. Lingjun Zhou confirmed and modified the back-translated version of the SPS, reviewed the manuscript, and edited it in English.
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Chen, F., Zhang, Y., Zhou, L. et al. Psychometric Evaluation of the Spiritual Perspective Scale in Palliative Care Nurses in China. J Relig Health 61, 2804–2818 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01582-w
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