Development and validation of the Chinese Version of Spiritual Interests Related Illness Tool for patients with cancer in Taiwan

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• 作者：Yu-Ling Lin^a ; ^{scalelin5410@yahoo.com.tw" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Kun-Ming Rau^b ; ^{Liu07882@ms57.hinet.net" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Yi-Hui Liu^c ; ^{yipig@isu.edu.tw" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Yu-Hua Lin^c ; ^{lin2368@isu.edu.tw" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Jeremy Ying^d ; ^{jying@isu.edu.tw" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Chia-Chan Kao^d ; ^{bettykao@inbox.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Spiritual needs ; Content validity ; Construct validity ; Internal consistency reliability ; Patients with cancer
• 刊名：European Journal of Oncology Nursing
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：19
• 期：5
• 页码：589-594
• 全文大小：343 K

文摘

The purpose of the study was to develop and validate the Chinese Version of Spiritual Interests Related Illness Tool (C-SpIRIT) for patients with cancer in Taiwan.

Methods

Translation, adaptation, and content validation were performed based on the 44-item Spiritual Interests Related Illness Tool. The psychometric validation was conducted based on 260 participants who were recruited from the oncology outpatient clinic of a medical center in southern Taiwan. The data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, and Pearson's correlations.

Results

Five subscales (related to beliefs/religion, positive attitudes toward life, love to/from others, seeking for the meaning of life, and peaceful mind) were extracted from an exploratory factor analysis. The five subscales (with 21 items) accounted for 50.43% of the variance. The evidence based on concurrent validity was supported by a significant correlation (r = 0.95) between the 33-itm C-SpIRIT and the 21-item C-SpIRIT. Cronbach's α values (0.73–0.88) demonstrated internal item consistency of the C-SpIRIT.

Conclusions

This preliminary 21-item and 5-factor constructed C-SpIRIT demonstrated a valid and reliable instrument to assess the spiritual needs of patients with cancer in Taiwan. In addition, it is a handy tool for oncology nursing practitioners to gage their patients' spiritual needs.