Association Between Attitude Toward Death and Completion of Advance Directives.
Autor: | Lynn, Theresa, Curtis, Amy, Lagerwey, Mary D. |
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CHI-squared test
CONFIDENCE intervals DECISION making PATIENT-family relations POWER of attorney QUESTIONNAIRES RELIGION RESEARCH evaluation SCALE analysis (Psychology) SURVEYS ADVANCE directives (Medical care) ATTITUDES toward death LIVING wills CROSS-sectional method DATA analysis software DESCRIPTIVE statistics ODDS ratio |
Zdroj: | Omega: Journal of Death & Dying; Dec2016, Vol. 74 Issue 2, p193-211, 19p, 5 Charts, 2 Graphs |
Abstrakt: | Advance directives provide health-care instruction for incapacitated individuals and authorize who may make health-care decisions for that individual. Identified factors do not explain all variance related to advance directive completion. This study was an analysis of an association between advance directive completion and death attitudes. Surveys that included the Death Attitude Profile--Revised were completed anonymously. Comparisons of means, chi-square, and logistic regression tests were conducted. Among individuals who did not consider themselves religious, the mean death avoidance attitude scores differed significantly among those with advance directives (mean=1.93) and those without (mean=4.05) as did the mean approach acceptance attitude scores of those with advance directives (mean=5.73) and those without (mean=3.71). Among individuals who do consider themselves religious, the mean escape acceptance attitude scores differed significantly among those with advance directives (mean=5.11) and those without (mean=4.15). The complicated relationships among religiosity, advance directives, and death attitudes warrant further study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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