Open AccessIs the Patient Dignity Inventory suitable even for not end of life patients? Factorial structure and invariance in chronic patients
Author(s) -
Fabio Ferretti,
Andrea Pozza,
Maurilio Pallassini,
Lorenzo Righi,
Fulvia Marini,
С. Адами,
Anna Coluccia
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
professioni infermieristiche
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2532-1579
pISSN - 0033-0205
DOI - 10.7429/pi.2018.712079
Subject(s) - dignity , cronbach's alpha , feeling , structural equation modeling , psychology , medicine , context (archaeology) , clinical psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , construct validity , population , quality of life (healthcare) , psychometrics , psychotherapist , social psychology , mathematics , statistics , paleontology , power (physics) , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics , political science , law , biology
The sense of dignity is a multifactorial feeling influenced also by the healthcare context. PDI-IT is a tool that measures this construct, but its psychometric characteristics have not been adequately investigated in patients which are not experiencing and End- Of-Life condition. The aim of this study is to examine the psychometric characteristics of PDI-IT in a group of non-terminal chronic patients and to verify the instrument's invariance with respect to the individual characteristics of patients.