Open AccessThe Portuguese versions of the This Is ME Questionnaire and the Patient Dignity Question: tools for understanding and supporting personhood in clinical care
Author(s) -
Miguel Julião,
Carla Courelas,
Manuel João Costa,
Nadine Correia Santos,
Filipa Fareleira,
Bárbara Antunes,
Susana Magalhães,
Paulo Sousa,
Harvey Max Chochinov
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of palliative medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2224-5839
pISSN - 2224-5820
DOI - 10.21037/apm.2018.04.04
Subject(s) - dignity , personhood , medicine , portuguese , health care , informed consent , nursing , family medicine , alternative medicine , law , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , political science
Modern medicine can be impersonal and routinized, paying insufficient attention to issues of personhood. The Patient Dignity Question (PDQ) and This Is ME (TIME) Questionnaire are clinical tools developed with the aim of probing for personhood, reinforcing dignity and promoting health care attitudes based on looking at people for who they are and not defining them solely based on their medical condition. This study aimed to translate and validate the TIME Questionnaire and the PDQ into European Portuguese, coined as Questionário Este Sou EU (ESEU) and Pergunta da Dignidade (PD), respectively.