Abstract
BackgroundCompassionate care is the sensitivity shown by health care providers to understand another person’s suffering and a willingness to help and to promote the well being of that person. Although monitoring of compassionate care is key to ensuring patient-centered care, there is no validated tool in the Ethiopian context that can be applied to measure compassionate care. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the structural validity and reliability of the 12-item Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale® (SCCCS) in the Ethiopian context.MethodsThe structural validity and reliability of the 12-item Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale® were investigated in a sample of 423 oncology patients in the adult Oncology department of Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The internal consistency of the instrument was examined based on Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, and the structural validity was evaluated by subjecting the items of the instrument to factor analysis. Statistical analysis was made using SPSS version 23.0.ResultsWe have found that the Schwartz Center Compassionate Care scale is a two-factor structure (recognizing suffering and acting to relieve suffering). The scale has high overall scale reliability, which was 0.88, and subscale reliability of 0.84 for both recognizing suffering and acting to relieve suffering factors.ConclusionsThe Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale has high internal consistency and acceptable structural validity value. The tool can be used to measure compassionate care practice in the Ethiopian context.
Highlights
Compassion has a deep emotional sensitivity to human suffering, which requires a personal understanding of the suffering of others and caring for them in a way that brings comfort to the sufferer [1]
We have found that the Schwartz Center Compassionate Care scale is a two-factor structure
In two countries in the USA and Ireland, the validity and reliability of the tool were examined and the results showed that the tool is potentially useful in different settings for measuring compassionate care practice [8, 12]
Summary
Compassion has a deep emotional sensitivity to human suffering, which requires a personal understanding of the suffering of others and caring for them in a way that brings comfort to the sufferer [1]. It is all about recognizing, understanding, and resonating emotionally with another’s concerns, distress, pain, or suffering coupled with an acknowledgment, motivation, and relational action to ameliorate them [2]. To measure compassionate care accurately, it is necessary to have a robust and psychometrically validated instrument within a given setting. This study aimed to assess the structural validity and reliability of the 12item Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale® (SCCCS) in the Ethiopian context
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