title: [Development and evaluation of a dignified dying scale for Korean adults].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The above findings indicate that the dignified dying scale has a good validity and reliability when used with Korean adults.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu, Daegu, Korea. jokw@cu.ac.kr
authors.forename: Kae Hwa
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Jo
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001293:Attitude to Death / Q000208:ethnology*; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016730:Program Development; D056910:Republic of Korea; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires