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ArticleJournal of religion and health2023

The Spiritual Supporter Scale as a New Tool for Assessing Spiritual Care Competencies in Professionals: Design, Validation, and Psychometric Evaluation.

Małgorzata Fopka-Kowalczyk, Megan Best, Małgorzata Krajnik

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Article in Journal of religion and health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Małgorzata Fopka-KowalczykDepartment of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland. mfopka-kowalczyk@umk.pl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5785-6227
Megan BestInstitute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1570-8872
Małgorzata KrajnikDepartment of Palliative Care, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Collegium Medicum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9473-6163

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to design, validate and standardize the Spiritual Supporter (SpSup) Scale, a tool designed to assess competency to provide spiritual care including knowledge, sensitivity to spiritual needs and spiritual support skills. This instrument can be used by all those engaged in or training for caregiving roles. The study was conducted in Poland in the Polish language. The SpSup Scale demonstrates high overall reliability (Cronbach's α = 0.88), a satisfactory diagnostic accuracy (0.79), and a satisfactory discriminatory power of the items. Given the psychometric properties of SpSup Scale demonstrated here, the scale is recommended for the assessment of the competency to provide spiritual care in both clinical and research settings in Poland.

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SpiritualitySpiritual TherapiesHumansPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesDesignPsychometric evaluationSpiritual careSpiritual Supporter Scale

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PMID35881265
PMCPMC10133369

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