The Measurement of Communication Apprehension regarding the Terminally Ill
- 1 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying
- Vol. 17 (3), 251-261
- https://doi.org/10.2190/w4hk-wln6-lpla-lyta
Abstract
In order to establish the reliability and validity of a scale assessing communication apprehension regarding the dying, measures of generalized communication apprehension (CA), communication apprehension regarding the dying (CA-Dying), and death anxiety were administered to fifty-nine individuals, twenty-nine of whom had enrolled in an eight-week hospice volunteer training program, and thirty of whom were on the hospice mailing list. Results suggested that the CA-Dying scale possessed more than adequate reliability (internal consistency, test-retest) and validity (correlations with death fear, susceptibility to volunteer training program effects). It was concluded that the CA-Dying scale may serve as a useful index of difficulties caregivers have in communicating with the terminally ill.Keywords
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