Development and psychometric evaluation of a Persian version of the Death Depression Scale-Revised: a cross-cultural adaptation for patients with advanced cancer

Nia, Hamid Sharif; Sharif, Saeed Pahlevan; Lehto, Rebecca H.; Boyle, Christopher; Yaghoobzadeh, Ameneh; Kaveh, Omolhoda; Goudarzian, Amir Hossein

doi:10.1093/jjco/hyx065

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“…The following scales were also used in this study: the Death Concern Scale (DCS, Dickstein [26], the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale (CLFDS, Collett & Lester, Lesterr) [27,28], the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS, Templer [29], the Reasons for Death Fear Scale (RDFS, Abdel-Khalek [30], and the Death Depression Scale (DDS, Templer, Lavoie, Chalgujian, & Thomas-Dobson [31] (see Table 2). Previous studies have reported translation and adapted processes of the Farsi versions and also desirable reliability and validity for all the scales [[32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45]]. In the present study, the Farsi validated forms of the scales were used.…”

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Validation of the Farsi version of the Death Obsession Scale among nurses

Dadfar

Abdel‐Khalek

Lester

2018

International Journal of Nursing Sciences

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Objectives Obsession is one of the important aspects in death distress. The objective of this study was to estimate the reliability, validity, and factorial structure of the Farsi version of the Death Obsession Scale (DOS). Methods A convenience sample of 106 Iranian nurses from two hospitals at Tehran city, Iran was recruited. They completed the DOS, Death Concern Scale, Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale, Death Anxiety Scale, Reasons for Death Fear Scale, and Death Depression Scale. Results Cronbach's α for the DOS was 0.95, and 2-week test-retest reliability was 0.74. The DOS correlated 0.48, 0.46, 0.47, 0.39 and 0.44 with the last mentioned scales, respectively ( P < 0.01), indicating good construct and criterion-related validity. Principle components analysis of the DOS identified three factors accounted for 74.82% of the variance. Factor 1 labeled “Death rumination” (34.78% of the variance), Factor 2 labeled “Death dominance” (29.65% of the variance), and Factor 3 labeled “Death idea repetition” (10.38% of the variance). Conclusions The DOS has good validity and reliability, and it could be recommended for use in clinical and research settings to assess the death obsession in Iranian nurses.

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Validation of the Farsi version of the Death Obsession Scale among nurses

Dadfar

Abdel‐Khalek

Lester

2018

International Journal of Nursing Sciences

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“…In addition, to assess the content validity quantitatively, we measured content validity ratios (CVR) and content validity index (CVI) via modi ed kappa coe cient (K). To calculate CVR, the questionnaire was administered to 10 persons representing education and psychometrics, psychology and aging were asked them to evaluate how essential each items on a three-point scale as follows: 1=Not essential, 2=Useful but not essential, and 3=Essential (26,27). Then the CVR was evaluated using the following formula: CVR= (ne -[N/2])/(N/2).…”

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Psychometrics of Persian Version of the 11 items De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale among an Iranian Older Adults Population during COVID-19 Pandemic

Hosseini

Nia

Froelicher

et al. 2021

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Background: Due to the urgent emphasis on quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, the possibility of feelings of loneliness, especially in older adults, became an important nursing priority. Therefore, is important to identify loneliness quickly and respond appropriately to prevent, reduce or treat it. In order to do so, the aim of this study was to translate and evaluated the Persian version of De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale for older adults. Method: The original scale was translated into Persian using the World Health Organization protocol of forward-backward translation technique. Face validity and content validity; followed by EFA and CFA. The sample was 400 olddr adults including who were recruited via online data gathering. Lastly, reliability was assessed through the Average Inter-Item Correlation (AIC), Cronbach’s alpha and McDonald’s omega.Results: The results showed that Persian version of Loneliness Scale had two factors namely social loneliness (5 items) and emotional loneliness (3 items) and the combined score explained 45.66% of the total variance of this scale. In addition, all goodness of fit indices confirmed a two factors model fit and all of the reliability indices were excellent.Conclusion: The Persian version of the Loneliness Scale is useful and suitable for detecting social loneliness and emotional loneliness in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Five points Likert scale was used (quite important = Score 5, to some extent important = Score 4, moderately important = Score 4, slightly important = Score 4, unimportant = Score 1). The item impact score (IIS) of each item was calculated, and a score ≥1.5 was considered appropriate [28][29][30]. Moreover, item clarity and comprehensibility were improved by striving to editing and rewording.…”

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Academic-Service Partnership programs in nursing: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Achieving Mutual Benefits Scale (AMBS)

Sadeghnezhad

Nabavi

Najafi

et al. 2020

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Background: The first step for the establishment of academic-service partnership programs is identification of mutual benefits. The rate of achievement of these benefits reflects the success rate of the partnership program. This study aimed to develop an achieving mutual benefits scale in nursing academic-service partnership programs. Method: The AMBS was developed based on an analysis of the concept of mutual benefits in nursing academic-service partnership programs by the hybrid model approach. Findings of the concept analysis study was used to produce items pool. Then, the psychometric properties of the scale were evaluated using face, content and construct validities, and internal consistency, and stability for reliability. Results: The AMBS consists of 44 items. Exploratory factors analysis supported six factor with an explained variance of 59.06%. The Cronbach’s α, and Omega coefficient of the scale respectively ranged from 0.77 to 0.93, and 0.75 to 0.9. The content validity index of 0.97, and internal consistency of 0.76 were obtained for the final scale. Conclusions: The AMBS is a valid and reliable scale for the measurement of the mutual benefits achievement rate in nursing academic-service partnership programs in six dimensions of research synergy, managers' synergy in the student education, development of nursing services, reducing the theory-practice gap, and access to the supportive learning environment. It is necessary to consider all dimensions in organizing these programs and assessing the success rate of them.

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Development and psychometric evaluation of a Persian version of the Death Depression Scale-Revised: a cross-cultural adaptation for patients with advanced cancer

Abstract: Findings revealed that the Persian version of the Death Depression Scale-Revised is valid and reliable, and may be used to assess and evaluate death depression in Iranian patients with advanced cancer.

Cited by 26 publications

References 37 publications

Validation of the Farsi version of the Death Obsession Scale among nurses

Validation of the Farsi version of the Death Obsession Scale among nurses

Psychometrics of Persian Version of the 11 items De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale among an Iranian Older Adults Population during COVID-19 Pandemic

Academic-Service Partnership programs in nursing: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of Achieving Mutual Benefits Scale (AMBS)

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