Establishing a ‘physician's spiritual well-being scale’ and testing its reliability and validity

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop a Physician's Spiritual Well-Being Scale (PSpWBS). The significance of a physician's spiritual well-being was explored through in-depth interviews with and qualitative data collection from focus groups. Based on the results of qualitative analysis and related literature, the PSpWBS consisting of 25 questions was established. Reliability and validity tests were performed on 177 subjects. Four domains of the PSpWBS were devised: physician's characteristics; medical practice challenges; response to changes; and overall well-being. The explainable total variance was 65.65%. Cronbach α was 0.864 when the internal consistency of the whole scale was calculated. Factor analysis showed that the internal consistency Cronbach α value for each factor was between 0.625 and 0.794 and the split-half reliability was 0.865. The scale has satisfactory reliability and validity and could serve as the basis for assessment of the spiritual well-being of a physician.

Exploring Physicians' Dissatisfaction and Work-Related Stress: Development of the PhyDis Scale

“…Despite the large number of studies on physicians' job satisfaction (Lichtenstein, 1984 ; Cooper et al, 1989 ; Konrad et al, 1999 ; Williams et al, 1999 ; Lavanchy et al, 2004 ; Bell et al, 2006 ; Etchegaray et al, 2010 ; Mcintyre and Mcintyre, 2010 ; Hann et al, 2011 ; Mohr and Burgess, 2011 ; Jönsson, 2012 ; Bouwkamp-Memmer et al, 2013 ) and well-being (Firth-Cozens, 2001 ; Arnetz et al, 2002 ; Wallace and Lemaire, 2007 ; Janisse, 2008 ; Fang et al, 2011 ; Hills et al, 2012 ; Rockey, 2012 ; Alsuwaida et al, 2013 ; Bell, 2013 ; Aalto et al, 2014 ; Heponiemi et al, 2014 ; Simon and Durand-Bush, 2014 ; Min et al, 2015 ; Scheepers et al, 2015 ; Tucker et al, 2015 ), there is apparently little interest in physicians' dissatisfaction and its roots.…”

Development and Evaluation of Psychometric Properties Regarding the Whole Person Health Scale for Employees of Hospital to Emphasize the Importance of Health Awareness of the Workers in the Hospital

“…In Kenya, Muthuri et al concerned health-related quality of life among healthcare workers to develop and implement national policies and programs for healthcare works [13]. In Taiwan, Fang et al developed a scale to evaluate the spiritual well-being of physicians, which was considered a medical ethical issue [19,20]. However, the concepts of whole person health involving physical-psychological = social-spiritual dimensions have not received enough attention.…”

A Critical Review of Spiritual Well-Being Scales: Implications for Research, Practice, and Education in Rehabilitation Counseling

“…The average interrater agreement among us (i.e., all authors) was around 95% and consensus was attained via discussion on any disagreements. Among these 17 scales, the Physician’s Spiritual Well-Being Scale (PSpWBS; Fang et al, 2011) and the Clergy Spiritual Well-Being Scale (CSWBS; Proeschold- et al, 2014) were removed from the list because these two scales were occupation-specific and thus had limited application in the counseling field. In the end, 15 scales were included in our final review.…”