title: Development of the Arabic Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study develops a new instrument, the Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale, and assesses its psychometric properties in an Arab Muslim nurse sample. The Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale was developed to measure the frequency with which nurses provided aspects of spiritual care.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Most of the available spiritual care instruments were developed in the West and reflect a predominantly Christian tradition. A review of the literature on spiritual care in nursing revealed that no instrument exists for measuring spiritual care interventions provided by nurses to Arab Muslim patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional descriptive and correlational design.
  
  
  METHODS
  Following an extensive literature search, review by an expert panel and a pilot study which included patients' views regarding aspects of spiritual care provided by nurses, the final version of the Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale was tested in a convenience sample of 360 Jordanian Arab Muslim nurses. Correlational and factor analysis were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The internal consistency of the Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale was high, with α coefficient of 0·85. The exploratory factor analysis supported a two-factor structure for the Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale as hypothesised. A significant positive correlation between the Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale and religiosity was in the expected direction though small in magnitude.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study initiates the development of an instrument for the provision of spiritual care intervention by nurses that balances the religious and existential dimensions of spirituality. The Spiritual Care Intervention-Provision Scale exhibited acceptable evidence of internal consistency and validity among Jordanian Arab Muslim nurses. Further work was suggested to firmly establish all aspects of this new scale.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This culturally specific instrument contributes to the evaluation of the provision of spiritual care by Jordanian Muslim nurses to their patients, to guide them in providing a comprehensive and appropriate spiritual care interventions and to examine the effect of spiritual care on various aspects of patient's quality of life.
authors.affiliation: Princess Salma Faculty of Nursing, Al al-Bayt University, Mafraq, Jordan.
authors.forename: Ahmad S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Musa
authors.affiliation: University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, UK.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Pevalin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018912:Arabs / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D007597:Jordan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life; D026443:Spiritual Therapies / Q000451:nursing*; D029181:Spirituality; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Arab Muslims; nursing; scale development; spiritual care intervention; validity and reliability