Ošetřovatelské perspektivy 2020, 3(2):49-58 | DOI: 10.25142/osp.2020.013

PSYCHOMETRIC VALIDATION OF SNAP-CZ QUESTIONNAIRE: PILOT STUDY

Lucie Mráčková^1,2, Helena Kisvetrová²

^1,2 Centrum vědy a výzkumu, Fakulta zdravotnických věd, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

² Ústav ošetřovatelství, Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě, Slezská Univerzita

Introduction: Spirituality is an integral part of human life. In a secular environment, spiritual needs are overlooked, especially in acute nursing care. Spiritual Needs Assessment for Patients (SNAP), which also exists in the Czech version (SNAP-CZ), can be used for objective evaluation.

Aim: Measure the psychometric properties of the SNAP-CZ.

Methods: Cross-sectional pilot study with tools assessing spiritual needs (SNAP-CZ),anxiety (Beck anxiety inventory; BAI), depression (Beck's depression inventory; BDI), pain (Visual Analogue Scale; VAS), self-sufficiency (Barthel index; BI) and Socio-demographic data. The reliability of SNAP-CZ was verified by the test-retest. Spearmen's correlation coefficient, Pearson's correlation coefficient, Cronbach's alfa, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA were used for statistical processing.

Results: 50 trauma patients from the University Hospital in Ostrava took part. The reliability of the SNAP-CZ questionnaire was good (Cronbach's α = 0.91). The testretest correlation reached high values (Pearson correlation r = 0.94, Spearman correlation r = 0.917). Positive correlations were found between BDI (Spearman's correlation coefficient; r = 0.368; p < 0,05) and the question of faith (Mann-Whitney U test; p = 0.025) with the total SNAP-CZ score.

Conclusion: The psychometric properties of the SNAP-CZ questionnaire appear to be very good.

Keywords: spirituality, acute nursing care, psychometric validation, assessment of spiritual needs, patient

Received: October 15, 2020; Revised: November 8, 2020; Accepted: November 26, 2020; Published: February 12, 2021  Show citation