Translation and Validation of the Coping with Death Scale: A Study with Nurses

Abstract

Theoretical framework: Coping with death allows dealing with death on a daily basis and is a key measure to assess the impact of professional training on the topic. Objectives: To translate and validate the Coping with Death Scale (Bugen, 1980-81) into Portuguese among Portuguese nurses. Methodology: Exploratory study of translation/back-translation, followed by psychometric analysis in a sample of 107 nurses working in oncology services. Results: The scale showed high internal consistency (α = 0.89). Following the study on validity, four items from the original version were deleted, and the two-factor solution was maintained (coping with one's own death and coping with the death of others). No gender differences were found. Nurses with training in palliative care had higher levels of coping. Conclusion: The Portuguese version is useful to understand how healthcare professionals cope with death and assess the effectiveness of training in coping with death and dying.

Correlates of perceived death competence: What role does meaning-in-life and quality-of-life play?

“…The education level was high, with 70.4% having university education, and 64.3% identified themselves as a health professional. (Bugen, 1981;Robbins, 1991aRobbins, , 1994Neimeyer et al, 2003;Camarneiro & Gomes, 2015). Health-Related Quality of Life was measured with the Assessment of Quality of Life 4D instrument (AQoL-4D) (Hawthorne, Richardson, & Osborne, 1999;Hawthorne, Richardson, Day, & McNeil, 2000;Hawthorne, Richardson, & Day, 2001;Osborne, Hawthorne, Lew, & Gray, 2003;Hawthorne, Korn, & Richardson, 2013;AQoL, 2014AQoL, , 2015, and Meaning-in-life was measured with the Meaning In Life Questionnaire (MLQ) (Steger, Frazier, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006;Steger, Kawabata, Shimai, & Otake, 2008;Steger, Oishi, & Kashdan, 2009;Steger, 2010).…”

“…Death-competence can be defined as a construct representing a range of perceived knowledge and skills for coping with death, along with attitudes and beliefs about these abilities (Robbins, 1994). International studies have found greater death-competence to be associated with older age (Robbins, 1991a(Robbins, , 1991b(Robbins, , 1992(Robbins, , 1994Seo, Kim, Kim, & Lee, 2013;Haig, 2014), but not gender (Robbins, 1991a(Robbins, , 1992Reimer, 2007;Siracusa et al, 2011;Schmidt-RioValle et al, 2012;Haig, 2014;Camarneiro & Gomes, 2015), and the limited findings regarding the role of religiosity and spirituality (Seo et al, 2013;Haig, 2014) and educational level (Siracusa et al, 2011;Seo et al, 2013) have been inconsistent. The role of socio-economic status and occupation remains unknown (McNeely, 1998;Kim & Hwang, 2014).…”

Inventário de Coping para Atletas em Situação de Competição: Evidências de Validade

“…Os resultados obtidos nessa primeira etapa do estudo correspondem ao acúmulo de evidências de adequação dos procedimentos empregados por Balbinotti, Wiethaeuper e Barbosa (2013) para construção de um instrumento de avaliação de coping específico para atletas em situação de competição, uma vez que o instrumento apresenta estrutura fatorial semelhante àqueles que se pautaram na mesma compreensão/definição teórica (Holahan et al, 1996;Lazarus & Folkman, 1984;Zanini & Forns, 2014) para avaliação de coping em outros estratos populacionais, como adolescentes (Antoniazzi, 2000;Kristensen, Schaefer, & Busnello, 2010) e adultos (Benetti et al, 2015;Damião et al, 2009), bem como para avaliação de coping frente a situação específicas como a morte (Camarneiro & Gomes, 2015) e doenças oncológicas (Paula Junior, & Zanini, 2011;Rodrigues & Polidori, 2012). Dessa forma, pode-se inferir que o primeiro objetivo, estimar evidências de validade com base na estrutura interna do ICASC-40 (AERA; APA, & NCME, 2014), foi satisfatoriamente alcançado.…”

“…Alguns autores trazem em seus estudos, instrumentos internacionais com esse objetivo, no entanto, também refletem acerca da carência de instrumentos com propriedades psicométricas adequadamente testadas no Brasil (Balbinotti, Barbosa, Wiethaeuper, & Teodoro, 2006;Benetti et. al., 2015;Camarneiro & Gomes, 2015;Damião, Rossato, Fabri & Dias, 2009). Nesse sentido, embora atualmente haja um aumento substancial nos estudos direcionados a suprir essas lacunas, ainda são escassos os investimentos para a superação dessa lacuna no contexto esportivo (Paula Júnior & Zanini, 2011;Rodrigues & Polidori, 2012).…”

Nurses’ Coping Strategies in Pediatric Oncology: An Integrative Review / Estratégias de Enfrentamento dos Profissionais de Enfermagem Frente à Morte na Oncologia Pediátrica: Revisão Integrativa

“…In addition to managing a demand for the patient's death, nursing professionals need to care for both patients and their families, and this requires them to be effective. 5 Nursing professionals have a peculiar way to deal with the requirements of care for children with cancer, facing situations of suffering and the expectation of death and this assistance experience may affect them psychologically and emotionally. 6 Faced with the stress generated by the difficulty in dealing with death, nursing professionals can use coping strategies to alleviate the emotional burden involved in this process.…”