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Monforte-Royo, Cristina ORCID: 0000-0001-8334-4623, Gonzalez-de Paz, Luis, Tomas-Sabado, Joaquin ORCID: 0000-0002-7156-7843, Rosenfeld, Barry, Strupp, Julia, Voltz, Raymond and Balaguer, Albert ORCID: 0000-0002-5222-8635 (2017). Development of a short form of the Spanish schedule of attitudes toward hastened death in a palliative care population. Qual. Life Res., 26 (1). S. 235 - 240. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-2649

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Abstract

The schedule of attitudes toward hastened death (SAHD) is widely used to assess the wish to hasten death (WTHD) among patients with life-threatening conditions. A short form of the SAHD would increase its clinical applicability in this population. Rasch analysis of data from 101 Spanish palliative inpatients. Item reduction involved selecting items with a high discrimination index (point-biserials >= 0.70), removing items with inadequate fit statistics, and assessing unidimensionality and local dependency. We examined the test probability function to establish an empirical risk score for suffering a WTHD and tested convergence between the original and the reduced set of items. A set of five items met all quality criteria. In this sample, 20.8 % of participants had a higher risk of a WTHD (p > 50 %) at a score of 3. Correlation analysis confirmed convergent validity between the original and reduced forms. Concurrent validity was confirmed by the similar correlations shown by both versions of the SAHD (5 and 20 items) with other measures. This 5-item Spanish form of the SAHD could be a suitable alternative to the full instrument. The cut-off score derived from the Rasch analysis may be able to detect patients at risk of a WTHD.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Monforte-Royo, Cristina UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8334-4623 UNSPECIFIED Gonzalez-de Paz, Luis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tomas-Sabado, Joaquin UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7156-7843 UNSPECIFIED Rosenfeld, Barry UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Strupp, Julia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Voltz, Raymond UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Balaguer, Albert UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5222-8635 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-247518
DOI:	10.1007/s11136-016-1409-0
Journal or Publication Title:	Qual. Life Res.
Volume:	26
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 235 - 240
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	DORDRECHT
ISSN:	1573-2649
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS; CANCER-PATIENTS; MEASURING-DESIRE; VALIDATION; DEPRESSION; SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY; VERSION; SCALE Multiple languages Health Care Sciences & Services; Health Policy & Services; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/24751