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[Psychometric properties of the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) among HIV/AIDS patients]
Antonio López Castedo1, Isabel Calle Santos
1Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Vigo, Ourense, Spain. alopez@uvigo.es
Abstract:
AIDS patients and HIV carriers who are aware of their condition are under multiple kinds of stress with adverse effects on their emotional state and personal and social activity. This paper reports the psychometric properties of the DAS (Death Anxiety Scale) using the Spanish version in the clinical setting. The sample is made up of 148 HIV/AIDS patients (109 men and 39 women). The internal consistency of the scale was .72 and its test-retest reliability was .70. Principal components analysis extracted five factors that jointly accounted for 56.5% of the total variance. As, on the whole, these results are very similar to those reported by other authors, it is concluded that the Spanish DAS is a valid instrument for the assessment of death anxiety in Spanish HIV/AIDS patients.
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