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