Primary outcomes | ||||||||||
Spiritual care competency areas (12-ksa) | ||||||||||
Knowledge | 6.08 | 1.70 | 7.96 | 1.14 | 5.39 | 1.67 | 5.66 | 1.64 | 0.17 | |
Skills | 6.23 | 1.57 | 7.56 | 1.33 | 5.56 | 1.69 | 5.84 | 1.57 | 0.10 | |
Attitudes | 7.77 | 1.34 | 8.84 | 1.01 | 6.88 | 1.98 | 7.02 | 1.74 | 0.07 | |
Spiritual care competency facets (SCCQ) | ||||||||||
Perceptual competence | 3.09 | 0.49 | 3.26 | 0.41 | 2.81 | 0.59 | 2.79 | 0.59 | 0.03 | |
Team-spirit | 1.75 | 0.63 | 2.09 | 0.70 | 1.56 | 0.58 | 1.66 | 0.60 | 0.03 | |
Documentation competence | 1.40 | 0.62 | 2.84 | 0.85 | 1.22 | 0.40 | 1.37 | 0.46 | 0.38 | |
Self-awareness and proactive opening | 2.71 | 0.61 | 2.93 | 0.53 | 2.18 | 0.67 | 2.24 | 0.63 | 0.02 | |
Knowledge about other religions | 2.79 | 0.55 | 3.05 | 0.61 | 2.80 | 0.70 | 2.60 | 0.58 | 0.11 | |
Competence in conversation technique | 3.45 | 0.60 | 3.53 | 0.47 | 3.27 | 0.62 | 3.22 | 0.61 | 0.01 | |
Proactive empowerment competence | 2.75 | 0.67 | 3.03 | 0.58 | 2.27 | 0.79 | 2.30 | 0.72 | 0.02 | |
Secondary outcomes | ||||||||||
Spirituality-based component: Spiritual sensitivity (SSS) | ||||||||||
Awareness sensing | 3.90 | 0.85 | 4.04 | 0.72 | 3.75 | 0.75 | 3.66 | 0.80 | 0.04 | |
Mystery sensing | 4.06 | 0.57 | 4.12 | 0.61 | 3.79 | 0.59 | 3.75 | 0.65 | 0.01 | |
Value sensing | 4.40 | 0.67 | 3.75 | 0.65 | 3.76 | 0.88 | 3.76 | 0.77 | 0.02 | |
Community sensing | 3.94 | 0.84 | 3.85 | 0.84 | 3.34 | 0.90 | 3.39 | 0.94 | 0.01 | |
Care-based component: Empathy (SPF) | 3.79 | 0.36 | 3.80 | 0.39 | 3.67 | 0.38 | 3.67 | 0.44 | 0.00 | |
Competence-based component: General self-efficacy (GSES) | 2.88 | 0.45 | 3.00 | 0.39 | 2.90 | 0.44 | 2.91 | 0.37 | 0.04 |
Spiritual care competency areas (12-ksa) | .63 – .68 | .57 – .75 | .60 – .71 | .57 – .72 |
Spiritual care competency facets (SCCQ) | .45 – .93 | .46 – .78 | .55 – .93 | .31 – .79 |
Spiritual sensitivity (SSS) | .42 – .74 | .30 – .72 | .56 – .77 | .50 – .72 |
Empathy (SPF) | .60 – .81 | .59 – .77 | .59 – .80 | .70 – .79 |
General self-efficacy (GSES) | .88 | .88 | .87 | .86 |
Age in years, mean (SD; range) | 26.6 (8.2; 19–56) | 25.0 (6.9; 19–52) | .90 (t = .90) |
Nationality |
92% | 96% | .54 ( |
Gender |
63 (81%) | 50 (75%) | .13 ( |
Marital status |
.85 ( |
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single | 68% | 69% | |
married | 16% | 15% | |
Study subject |
.00 ( |
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medicine | 12 (15%) | ||
nursing science | 5 (6%) | ||
theology/religious education | 14 (18%) | ||
healthcare sciences | 6 (8%) | ||
social work | 31 (39%) | 67 (100%) | |
others (psychology, philosophy/medical ethics) | 6 (8%) | ||
Semesters studied, mean (SD) | 5.5 (2.7) | 4.7 (2.0) | 1.82 (t = .07) |
Previous vocational training |
31% | 27% | .32 ( |
Self-assessed religiosity/spirituality (1 = not at all, 6 = completely true), mean (SD) | |||
spiritual | 4.6 (1.3) | 3.7 (1.3) | .00 (t = 4.35) |
religious | 4.2 (1.4) | 3.4 (1.4) | .00 (t = 3.10) |
Religious preference, % | .25 ( |
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Catholic | 64% | 48% | |
Protestant | 15% | 28% | |
Muslim | 3% | 2% | |
other | 3% | 3% | |
none | 12% | 18% | |
Familiarity with spiritual care, % | 27% | 7% | .00 ( |