School of Nursing and Midwifery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Department of Nursing, Langroud School of Nursing and Midwifery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
Afr Health Sci. 2022 Sep;22(3):535-541. doi: 10.4314/ahs.v22i3.58.
The present study aimed to develop a tool to assess spiritual care after the COVID-19 Pandemic.
This study is a mixed sequential (Qualitative-Quantitative) exploratory study. In the qualitative phase, through 14 in-depth semi-structured individual interviews with clerics, specialists in Islamic jurisprudence and principles, specialists in education and health promotion, and using the content analysis approach, tool items were designed. Purposeful sampling was performed with maximum diversity of experts and enthusiasts in the field of spiritual health.
Content analysis of the data obtained from interviews led to explaining the concept of spiritual care after the COVID-19 Pandemic in four main themes: spiritual care needs, spiritual care characteristics, outcomes of spiritual care, and the challenge of providing spiritual care. The average content validity index of the tool was 0.94. Exploratory factor analysis showed 4 factors that explained more than 62.83% of the variance. The correlation of spiritual cares scale score for COVID-19 Pandemic with spiritual care tool was (0.86, p <0.001).
Spiritual care tool is a valid and reliable tool, with 38 items to assess the spiritual care after the COVID-19 Pandemic.
本研究旨在开发一种评估 COVID-19 大流行后精神关怀的工具。
这是一项混合顺序（定性-定量）探索性研究。在定性阶段，通过对 14 名神职人员、伊斯兰教法和原则专家、教育和健康促进专家进行的 14 次深入半结构化个人访谈，并采用内容分析方法，设计了工具项目。目的抽样是在精神卫生领域具有最大多样性的专家和热心人士中进行的。
对访谈中获得的数据进行内容分析，得出了 COVID-19 大流行后精神关怀的四个主要主题：精神关怀需求、精神关怀特征、精神关怀结果和提供精神关怀的挑战。工具的平均内容效度指数为 0.94。探索性因子分析显示，有 4 个因子可解释超过 62.83%的方差。COVID-19 大流行期间精神关怀量表评分与精神关怀工具的相关性为（0.86，p<0.001）。
精神关怀工具是一种有效且可靠的工具，有 38 个项目可用于评估 COVID-19 大流行后的精神关怀。
