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Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Spiritual Needs Assessment Scale of Patients with Cancer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2021

Behice Erci  and
Hakime Aslan Open the ORCID record for Hakime Aslan [Opens in a new window]
Behice Erci
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Inonu University, Malatya 44280, Turkey
Hakime Aslan*
Affiliation:
Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Inonu University, Malatya 44280, Turkey
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Author for correspondence: Hakime Aslan, Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Inonu University, Malatya44280, Turkey. E-mail: hakime.aslan@inonu.edu.tr
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Abstract

Objective

This research was conducted to determine the psychometric characteristics of the “Spiritual Needs Assessment Scale of Patients with Cancer” in Turkish patients with cancer.

Methods

This study used psychometric methods to test the adapted tool. The participants of this study were patients with a diagnosis of cancer in the outpatients and inpatients medical oncology and hematology clinics of a university hospital in Turkey. 400 patients determined by power analysis were included in the study. The data were collected in 2018. We used the descriptive form and “Spiritual Needs Assessment Scale of Patients with Cancer.” The obtained data were evaluated using Cronbach's α reliability coefficient, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and factor analysis.

Results

In the present study, the factor loads of the items were sufficient and explained 39.18% of the total variance. Cronbach's α value of the scale was 0.85.

Significance of results

As a result, it was found that the validity and reliability of the “Spiritual Needs Assessment Scale of Patients with Cancer” were ensured and they could be used in Turkish patients.

Keywords

CancerPatientsReliabilitySpiritual needsValidity
Type
Original Article
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , October 2022 , pp. 671 - 677
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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