Sharif-Nia Hamid, Froelicher Erika Sivarajan, Hejazi Sima, Moshtagh Mozhgan, Goudarzian Amir Hossein, Ebrahimi Faezeh
Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Department of Nursing, Amol Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
J Relig Health. 2023 Jun;62(3):2226-2251. doi: 10.1007/s10943-023-01778-8. Epub 2023 Mar 2.
Since spiritual well-being has a significant role in individual and social health, using a valid scale to identify these properties is essential. Comparing factor structure and differences in the number of dimensions and items of subscales could be an indicator of differences in individuals' attitudes toward spirituality among diverse cultures. The present review was performed for psychometric evaluation of the spiritual well-being measures. A systematic review of international databases and Iranian databases was conducted to evaluate studies published between January 1, 1970, and October 1, 2022. QUADAS-2, STARD, and COSMIN scales were used for risk of bias assessment. Following two rounds of screening, 14 articles entered quality assessment. According to the results, studies examining the factor structure of the spiritual well-being scale (SWBS) instrument have been conducted for the years 1998 to 2022. The mean age of the participants in these studies ranged from 20.8 to 79.08 years. During the process of exploratory factor analysis, the researchers reported the presence of two to five latent factors, and the range of explained variance was between 35.6 and 71.4%. However, most of the reports indicated the existence of two or three latent factors. The findings of the present study provide an image of the psychometric status of the SWBS for researchers and clinicians in this field and can help them make optimum decisions in selecting a scale or conducting additional psychometric studies or adopting this scale for studies in new populations.
由于精神健康在个人和社会健康中具有重要作用，因此使用有效的量表来识别这些属性至关重要。比较不同文化中个体对灵性态度差异的因素结构以及分量表维度和项目数量的差异可能是一个指标。本综述旨在对精神健康测量工具进行心理测量学评估。对国际数据库和伊朗数据库进行了系统综述，以评估1970年1月1日至2022年10月1日期间发表的研究。使用QUADAS - 2、STARD和COSMIN量表进行偏倚风险评估。经过两轮筛选，14篇文章进入质量评估。结果显示，关于精神健康量表（SWBS）工具因素结构的研究在1998年至2022年期间开展。这些研究中参与者的平均年龄在20.8岁至79.08岁之间。在探索性因素分析过程中，研究人员报告存在两到五个潜在因素，解释方差范围在35.6%至71.4%之间。然而，大多数报告表明存在两到三个潜在因素。本研究结果为该领域的研究人员和临床医生提供了SWBS心理测量学状况的图景，并可帮助他们在选择量表、进行额外的心理测量学研究或在新人群研究中采用该量表时做出最佳决策。
