Instruments to measure skills and knowledge of physicians and medical students in palliative care: A systematic review of psychometric properties

López-García, Mónica; Rubio, Leticia; Martín‐de‐las‐Heras, Stella; Suárez, Juan; Pérez-Cárceles, María D.; Martín-Martín, Jaime

doi:10.1080/0142159x.2022.2067033

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“…The results of this study supporting validity and reliability of the recently released FATCOD-9IT acquired greater importance in the light of the results of the recent systematic review about the instruments available to measure skills and knowledge of doctors and medical students towards palliative care. 36 If the tools available to assess knowledge and expertise in palliative care are few, the FATCOD-9IT version appears to be the only valid and reliable measure to evaluate the medical student's personal disposition toward the care of the dying. Now that this effective tool, quick to complete and simple to calculate, is available and free to use, the authors of this study hope that its use can spread in a way to extend the knowledge about the development of adequate attitude toward the care of the dying during medical training.…”

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Preclinical and Clinical Medical Student Attitudes Toward the Care of the Dying: Testing the 9-Item Version of the Frommelt Attitude Toward the Care of the Dying Scale

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Molinengo

Miniotti

et al. 2023

Am J Hosp Palliat Care

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The demand for palliative care is increasing worldwide. Beyond the acquisition of technical knowledge, the development of adequate personal disposition toward the relationship with the dying is a key aspect of the future training of doctors. This study evaluates the psychometric properties of the 9-Item Version of the Frommelt Attitude Toward the Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD-9IT) the authors recently developed and its capability to distinguish medical students with different attitudes toward the care of the dying and at different stages of medical training. The study included 595 medical students, 400 at the first and 195 at the fifth year. The Rasch rating scale model was specified to assess scale dimensionality, functioning and measurement invariance. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability and between-group difference sensitivity (first-vs fifth-year students) were evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha, Intraclass correlation coefficients, Paired sample t-test and Mann-Whitney U. Scale unidimensionality, rating scale functioning and measurement invariance were established. The scale demonstrated good internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and adequately discriminated between first- and fifth-year students. The study supports the validity and reliability of the FATCOD-9IT. Its effectiveness, simplicity of compilation and score calculation, and gratuitousness encourage its widespread use as fast assessment of the medical student attitudes toward the care of the dying.

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confidence: 99%