• Lisa Burkhart, Lee Schmidt, and Nancy Hogan.
• Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago, Illinois, USA. eburkha@luc.edu
• J Adv Nurs. 2011 Nov 1;67(11):2463-72.

AimThis article is a report of the development and psychometric testing of the Spiritual Care Inventory.BackgroundResearch supporting the positive association between spirituality and health has lead to interest in providing spiritual care in healthcare settings. Few instruments exist that measure the provision of spiritual care.MethodIn February/March 2007, a convenience sample of 298 adult and paediatric acute care, ambulatory, home health, hospice staff and rehab nurses at two hospitals (n = 248) and graduate students at a school of nursing (n = 50) completed a 48-item initial version of the Spiritual Care Inventory. In study 2 from July through August 2007, 78 staff nurses at one hospital (n = 30) and a different cohort of graduate students at a school of nursing (n = 48) completed the 18-item second version of the Spiritual Care Inventory.ResultsExploratory factor analysis in study 1 supported a 3-factor solution (spiritual care interventions, meaning making and faith rituals) with internal consistency measures for the subscales above 0·80. In study 2, internal consistency remained high.ConclusionFactor structures identify that spiritual care is a process of intervention, meaning making and faith rituals.© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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