A Chinese version of a Likert-type death anxiety scale for colorectal cancer patients

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• 作者：Hong Yang ; Jie Zhang ; Yuhan Lu ; Ming Li ; ^{limingmd@126.com}
• 关键词：Colorectal cancer ; Death anxiety ; Likert-type scale
• 刊名：International Journal of Nursing Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：3
• 期：4
• 页码：337-341
• 全文大小：443 K
• 卷排序：3

文摘

This study aimed to evaluate and validate the performance of a Chinese version of a Likert-type death anxiety scale for colorectal cancer patients.MethodsThis study assessed the death anxiety of 50 colorectal cancer patients, which were selected by convenience sampling method, by using the Chinese version of a Likert-type Templer death anxiety scale (CL-TDAS) on the first day of admission.ResultsMost of the respondents finished the entire scale in 3–5 min, and the recovery rate was 94.0%. Cronbach's α indicated that the internal consistency was 0.821 for the complete 15 items, and the correlation between the CL-TDAS and the C-TDAS (non-Likert-type) was 0.79(P < 0.05). The structural validity of the CL-TDAS revealed that the scale items accounted for >63.78% of the total variability, and that the four-component structure of the data well fitted the model. The mean score of the CL-TDAS was 36.16 ± 9.99 (first day of admission).ConclusionThe CL-TDAS showed reliable performance and can thus be a promising instrument for evaluating the death anxiety of cancer patients. Death anxiety varied for different periods and different genders.