title: Reliability and Validity of the Spiritual Care-Giving Scale in a Turkish Population.
abstract: This study aimed to adapt an English version of the survey tool Spiritual Care-Giving Scale for Turkish students and to evaluate its psychometric properties. Spiritual care is a central element of holistic nursing, but is not often made explicit in the theoretical and practical components of preregistration nursing programs. A composite scale will assist in identifying students' perceptions and issues to be addressed in curricula and practice settings in Turkey. The scale was composed of 35 items and five subscales. Cronbach's α reliability coefficient was .96, and item-total point correlations were between .37 and .77. In addition, split-half reliability coefficient was .88. The Spiritual Care-Giving Scale was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for measuring the multifaceted perspectives of spirituality and spiritual care in practice by students. Further testing of this scale is required with other student populations and clinicians.
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Ataturk University Faculty of Health Science, Erzurum, Turkey. laypek_6@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Gülay
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: İpek Çoban
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Ataturk University Faculty of Health Science, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Meltem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Şirin
authors.affiliation: Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Ataturk University Faculty of Health Science, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Afife
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yurttaş
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D029181:Spirituality; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014421:Turkey; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Care; Nursing; Scale; Spirituality