Development and validation of a subjective end-of-life health literacy scale.

ABSTRACT: Personal health literacy is the ability of an individual to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for oneself and others. The end of life is commonly characterized by the occurrence of one or several diseases, the use of many different types of healthcare services, and a need to make complex medical decisions that may involve challenging tradeoffs, such as choices between quality and length of life. Although end-of-life care issues concern most people at some point in life, individuals' competencies to deal with those questions have rarely been explored. This study aims to introduce, develop, and validate an instrument to measure individuals' self-assessed competencies to deal with end-of-life medical situations, the Subjective En

SUBMITTER: Meier C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10575492 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature