Assessing prioritization of a good death across Brazil, Italy, Japan, and the United States: A psychometric evaluation.
Empirically vetted measures capturing individual priorities for a good death are lacking. This study assessed the measurement properties, measurement invariance, and internal consistency reliability of a prospective measure, Prioritization of a Good Death Index. We used data from a probability sampl...
| Published in: | Death Studies Vol. 50; no. 9; pp. 1915 - 1926 |
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2026
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