The Role of Advance Care Planning on Community Dwelling Adults' Coping Abilities and Death Attitudes: A Sequential Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To (1) examine the attitudes of community-dwelling adults towards death and their ability to cope with death, as well as (2) understand the influence of advance care planning on community-dwelling adults' death attitudes and coping with death.

Design

A sequential explanatory mixed-methods study was conducted in Singapore.

Methods

In Phase I, a case-control study was conducted to examine the differences in death attitudes and coping with death ability between community-dwelling adults who have completed advance care planning and those who have not. A univariate general linear model was used to compute the mean difference in death attitudes and coping with death scores. In Phase II, a descriptive qualitative study was conducted to provide an in-depth understanding o

SUBMITTER: Fan JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12862523 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature