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  • Palliative Care
  • Public Health
  • Psychometrics

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  • End-of-life care experiences can foster death literacy.
  • A comprehensive measure for death literacy is needed to evaluate interventions.
  • Assessing death literacy is crucial for individuals, communities, and societal well-being.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a comprehensive and usable Death Literacy Index.
  • To create a psychometrically sound tool for measuring death literacy.
  • To provide a reliable instrument for assessing interventions related to death literacy.

Main Methods:

  • Mixed methods approach integrating personal narratives and expert input.
  • Development of the Death Literacy Index.
  • Refinement and validation using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling on a sample of 1330 Australians.

Main Results:

  • A 29-item Death Literacy Index was developed.
  • The index demonstrated reliability and construct validity.
  • The measure is suitable for assessing death literacy in diverse populations.

Conclusions:

  • The Death Literacy Index is a reliable and valid measure.
  • This tool has the potential to assess interventions aimed at improving death literacy.
  • Further research is recommended to establish predictive validity.