Angélica Martins de Souza Gonçalves
Enfermeira, mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem Psiquiátrica da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP).
Sandra Cristina Pillon
Professora doutora do Departamento de Enfermagem Psiquiátrica e Ciências Humanas da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (EERP-USP).
Abstract:
Context: Spirituality can be considered a personal dimension to understand questions about life, about meanings and the relationship with the sacred or transcendent, which may (or not) be related to religious rituals. Objective: To evaluate the internal consistency of translated and adapted for Brazil version of the instrument Spirituality Self Rating Scale (SSRS). Methods: Descriptive, cross sectional study. The SSRS has been applied to study it the internal consistency in a sample consisted of 138 (69%) males psychoactive substance users linked to different services for rehabilitation or participating in group of mutual-help. Results: The internal consistency, evaluated by the coefficient of Chronbach’s alpha, showed overall value of 0.8355, ranging from 0.7028 to 0.8878. Conclusions: The Brazilian version of SSRS showed value of internal consistency similar to the original version in English and can be considered good.
Keywords:Spirituality, internal consistency, SSRS.