An exploratory factor analysis into the applicability of the Spirituality Care-Giving Scale, the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale and the Spirituality in Occupational Therapy Scale to the South African context

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dc.contributor.authorMthembu, Thuli G.
dc.contributor.authorRoman, Nicolette V.
dc.contributor.authorWegner, Lisa
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-14T08:53:46Z
dc.date.available2018-05-14T08:53:46Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractSpirituality and spiritual care are both considered as important elements of health sciences education; however, limited research has been conducted with occupational therapy students using spirituality scales. Therefore, this study assessed the internal consistency component of reliability and carried out factor analyses of three spirituality scales which examined the perceptions and attitudes of South African undergraduate occupational therapy students regarding spirituality and spiritual care. This study used a cross-sectional survey design using convenience sampling to recruit 100 participants. The internal consistency of the instruments evaluated showed satisfactory reliability: i.e. the Spiritual Care-Giving Scale (α=0.946), the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale (α= 0.764) and the Spirituality in Occupational Therapy scale (α=0.868). The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of Sampling Adequacy values was 0.862, 0.883, and 0.868 respectively, indicating the appropriateness of the factor analysis. Factor analysis from varimax rotated results was also performed to identify the patterns of spirituality and spiritual care within the instruments. The total variances of the instruments were acceptable at 59.1, 67.6 and 69.8% respectively. An implication of these findings is the possibility that exposing occupational therapy students to spirituality and spiritual care could be useful for them to gain insight into and be sensitive to the clients’ spiritual needs. Further research should be undertaken in other institutions of higher learning that offer occupational therapy programmes.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHET
dc.identifier.citationMthembu, T.G. et al. (2016). An exploratory factor analysis into the applicability of the Spirituality Care-Giving Scale, the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale and the Spirituality in Occupational Therapy Scale to the South African context. South African Journal of Occupational Therapy, 46(1): 74-82.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0038-2337
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2310-3833/2016/v46n1a14
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3655
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherOccupational Therapy Association of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsThis Open Access journal is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CCBY-NC-ND 4.0]. Under this license, authors agree to make articles available to users, without permission or fees, for any lawful, non- commercial purpose. Users may read, copy, or re-use published content as long as the author and original place of publication are properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectExploratory factor analysisen_US
dc.subjectReliabilityen_US
dc.subjectSpiritualityen_US
dc.subjectSpiritual careen_US
dc.subjectOccupational therapyen_US
dc.titleAn exploratory factor analysis into the applicability of the Spirituality Care-Giving Scale, the Spirituality and Spiritual Care Rating Scale and the Spirituality in Occupational Therapy Scale to the South African contexten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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