Validation of a questionnaire to assess complexity of palliative care needs in primary care in Malaga, Spain: a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The needs of patients in palliative care (PC) are multiple and changing. Several tools assess them, but there is a lack of homogeneity among them. A specific diagnostic tool to assess complexity in PC (IDC-Pal: Instrumento Diagnóstico de la Complejidad en Cuidados Paliativos, in Spanish) was created in community and hospital settings with 36 items to diagnose PC complexity, but its application in primary care is difficult.

Aims

(1) To generate an adapted version to primary care of the IDC-Pal tool to identify and stratify PC complexity in the adult population. (2) To determine face, content, criterion and construct validity and reliability of the new instrument.

Methods and analysis

There are three phases of clinimetric cross-sectional observational valid

SUBMITTER: Aguiar-Leiva VP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273104 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature