Development of palliative care attitude and knowledge (PCAK) questionnaire for physicians in Kuwait.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the past five decades, palliative care has changed from helping patients at the end of life into a highly dedicated service focused on delivering supportive care to patients with life-limiting illnesses throughout the disease trajectory. To date there is no common agreement on universally applicable measurement tool to know the areas of weakness in physicians' understanding of palliative care and identifying misconceptions about palliative care. This paper describes the development of a reliable and valid questionnaire to provide a measure of the attitude and knowledge of physicians toward palliative care (PCAK).

Methods

Item pool was generated paying particular attention to content and face validity. The initial version of the questionnaire was piloted and a

SUBMITTER: Al-Ansari AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555752 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature