作者
Craig Sinclair, Ling Yeoh, Ava Karusoo‐Musumeci, Kirsten A Auret, Josephine M Clayton, Michelle Hilgeman, Elizabeth Halcomb, Ron Sinclair, Angelita Martini, Anne Meller, Rebecca Walton, Li Wei, Tiet‐Hanh Dao‐Tran, Susan Kurrle, Tracy Comans
发表日期
2024/4
期刊
Health Expectations
卷号
27
期号
2
页码范围
e14010
简介
Objective
Decisional conflict is used increasingly as an outcome measure in advance care planning (ACP) studies. When the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS) is used in anticipatory decision‐making contexts, the scale is typically tethered to hypothetical scenarios. This study reports preliminary validation data for hypothetical scenarios relating to life‐sustaining treatments and care utilisation to inform their broader use in ACP studies.
Methods
Three hypothetical scenarios were developed by a panel of multidisciplinary researchers, clinicians and community representatives. A convenience sample of 262 older adults were surveyed. Analyses investigated comprehensibility, missing data properties, sample norms, structural, convergent and discriminant validity.
Results
Response characteristics suggested that two of the scenarios had adequate comprehensibility and response spread. Missing response rates were …
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