Kae-Hwa Jo

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Development and Evaluation of a Dignified Dying Scale for Korean Adults: Kae-Hwa Jo; Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing 2011;41(3):313-324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4040/jkan.2011.41.3.313
Published online: June 13, 2011

Professor, College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea.

Address reprint requests to: Jo, Kae-Hwa. College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, 3056-6 Daemyeong 4-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-718, Korea. Tel: +82-53-650-4825, Fax: +82-53-621-4106, jokw@cu.ac.kr

• Received: August 20, 2010 • Accepted: June 7, 2011

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Abstract

Purpose
The study was done to develop a dignified dying scale for Korean adults.
Methods
The process included construction of a conceptual framework, generation of initial items, verification of content validity, selection of secondary items, preliminary study, and extraction of final items. The participants were 428 adults who lived in one of 3 Korean metropolitan cities: Seoul, Daegu, and Busan. Item analysis, factor analysis, criterion related validity, and internal consistency were used to analyze the data. Data collection was done from March to June 2010.
Results
Thirty items were selected for the final scale, and categorized into 5 factors explaining 54.5% of the total variance. The factors were labeled as maintaining emotional comfort (10 items), arranging social relationship (9 items), avoiding suffering (3 items), maintaining autonomous decision making (4 items), and role preservation (4 items). The scores for the scale were significantly correlated with personal meanings of death scale. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the 30 items was .92.
Conclusion
The above findings indicate that the dignified dying scale has a good validity and reliability when used with Korean adults.
Keywords: Dignity; Death; Scale; Adult

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0007170).

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Figure 1

Conceptual framework of dignified dying of Korean adults.

Table 1

Demographic Characteristics of Participants (N=428)

Table 2

Item Analysis (N=428)

^*Item deleted by item analysis.

Table 3

Factor Analysis and Reliability (N=428)

Table 4

Correlation between Dignified Dying Scale and Personal Me-aning of Death Scale (N=428)

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