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Why is it important?
A steady increase in the number of patients requiring end-of-life care has been observed during the last decades. The assessment of healthcare students’ attitudes toward endof- life care is an important step in their curriculum, as it provides information about their disposition to practice palliative medicine. The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) was developed to detect such a disposition, but its psychometric properties are yet to be clearly defined.
Perspectives
The findings of the present study suggest that the FATCOD–B measures a two-dimensional construct and that several items seem in need of revision. Future research oriented toward building a revised version of the scale should pay attention to item ambiguity and take particular care to distinguish among items that concern emotions and beliefs related to end-of-life care, as well as their subjects (e.g., the healthcare provider, the patient, his family).
Professor Barbara Loera
Universita degli Studi di Torino
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This page is a summary of: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD–B) among Italian medical students, Palliative & Supportive Care, February 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1478951515000139.
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