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Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale
Euthanasia is undoubtedly the protagonist of many of the debates around the end of life both among health staff and in the general population. Considering that nurses provide care for terminally ill patients and support families and patients in their final days, it is essential to know their attitud...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32485846 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113855 |
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author | Fernández-Martínez, Elia Fernández-Muñoz, Juan José Romero-Blanco, Cristina Parra-Fernández, María Laura Onieva-Zafra, María Dolores |
author_facet | Fernández-Martínez, Elia Fernández-Muñoz, Juan José Romero-Blanco, Cristina Parra-Fernández, María Laura Onieva-Zafra, María Dolores |
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description | Euthanasia is undoubtedly the protagonist of many of the debates around the end of life both among health staff and in the general population. Considering that nurses provide care for terminally ill patients and support families and patients in their final days, it is essential to know their attitudes towards euthanasia. The aims of the study were to adapt and validate the Attitude Towards Euthanasia scale to a Spanish context, to test the dimensionality and to estimate the reliability of the scale. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a non-probabilistic sample of Spanish health-workers of 201 in a University Hospital in Ciudad Real. A self-reported socio-demographic questionnaire and the Euthanasia Attitude Scale were used for data collection. The psychometric properties of the scale were assessed, including reliability and validity using an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach’s alpha of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia scale was α = 0.827 and McDonald’s Omega = 0.903. The range of items of homogeneity was from 0.205 to 0.685. For the different exploratory factor analyses carried out, the Bartlett’s test of sphericity was p < 0.001 and the sample index value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin was over 0.802. in all cases. We present the factorial weights for three models: The first one assumes a unidimensional solution, the second model was composed by three factors and the third model was composed by four factors. In the confirmatory factor analysis, the three models presented an acceptable fit index. The Attitude Towards Euthanasia scale adaptation to a sample of Spanish health workers has shown, with some limitations, appropriate psychometric properties. There have been several differences between the original factorial solution. It would be necessary to replicate the study to reinforce the findings about the number of factors of the scale. |
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spelling | pubmed-73125732020-06-29 Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale Fernández-Martínez, Elia Fernández-Muñoz, Juan José Romero-Blanco, Cristina Parra-Fernández, María Laura Onieva-Zafra, María Dolores Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Euthanasia is undoubtedly the protagonist of many of the debates around the end of life both among health staff and in the general population. Considering that nurses provide care for terminally ill patients and support families and patients in their final days, it is essential to know their attitudes towards euthanasia. The aims of the study were to adapt and validate the Attitude Towards Euthanasia scale to a Spanish context, to test the dimensionality and to estimate the reliability of the scale. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a non-probabilistic sample of Spanish health-workers of 201 in a University Hospital in Ciudad Real. A self-reported socio-demographic questionnaire and the Euthanasia Attitude Scale were used for data collection. The psychometric properties of the scale were assessed, including reliability and validity using an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Cronbach’s alpha of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia scale was α = 0.827 and McDonald’s Omega = 0.903. The range of items of homogeneity was from 0.205 to 0.685. For the different exploratory factor analyses carried out, the Bartlett’s test of sphericity was p < 0.001 and the sample index value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin was over 0.802. in all cases. We present the factorial weights for three models: The first one assumes a unidimensional solution, the second model was composed by three factors and the third model was composed by four factors. In the confirmatory factor analysis, the three models presented an acceptable fit index. The Attitude Towards Euthanasia scale adaptation to a sample of Spanish health workers has shown, with some limitations, appropriate psychometric properties. There have been several differences between the original factorial solution. It would be necessary to replicate the study to reinforce the findings about the number of factors of the scale. MDPI 2020-05-29 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7312573/ /pubmed/32485846 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113855 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fernández-Martínez, Elia Fernández-Muñoz, Juan José Romero-Blanco, Cristina Parra-Fernández, María Laura Onieva-Zafra, María Dolores Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale |
title | Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale |
title_full | Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale |
title_fullStr | Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale |
title_full_unstemmed | Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale |
title_short | Spanish Version of the Attitude Towards Euthanasia Scale |
title_sort | spanish version of the attitude towards euthanasia scale |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312573/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32485846 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113855 |
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