ABSTRACT
Objective
To validate the use of the Spiritual Well-being Scale for hospitalized patients in the preoperative period.
Methods
Validation study of the Brazilian version of the Spiritual Well-Being Scale for use in hospitalized patients in the preoperative period, performed between January and April 2017, in the wards of a university hospital specialized in clinical and surgical cardiology. Exploratory factorial analysis was performed by Varimax orthogonal rotation. The reliability and internal consistency and the correlations between the items and the total were evaluated.
Results
The sample with 174 participants contained a ratio of 8.7 people per item (variable), considered adequate for the purpose of the factorial analysis (KMO = 0.87) and the Bartlett's Sphericity Test was significant (χ22. Panzini RG, Rocha NS, Bandeira DR, Fleck MPA. Qualidade de vida e espiritualidade. Arch Clin Psychiatry. 2007;34(Supl 1):105-15. = 1401.67, p < 0.01). The two rotated factors were constituted as the initial proposal, with the odd items representing the subscale Religious Well-being (α = 0.84) and the pairs, representing the subscale of Existential Well-being (α = 0.71), with correlation between the two factors of r = 0.47. The analysis of the factorial loads for the subscale of Religious Well-being presented distribution close to the initial validation, with all items with a factorial load > 0.3. In the evaluation of Existential Well-being subscale items, three items reached scores less than 0.3 factorial load.
Conclusion
The Spiritual Well-Being Scale was proved useful to evaluate the construct that is proposed when applied to hospitalized patients in the preoperative period.
Keywords
Psychometrics; validation studies; spirituality; psychological adaptation
