The development of a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of older people to end-of-life issues (AEOLI).

作者: Susan Catt , Martin Blanchard , Julia Addington-Hall , Maria Zis , Bob Blizard

DOI: 10.1191/0269216305PM1036OA

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摘要: Objectives: To develop an end-of-life attitudes questionnaire for use in a large community-based sample of older people. Design: Nominal groups and standardization questions. Participants: Eighteen people, ten academics five specialist palliative care health professionals were involved nominal groups. Thirty people took part initial pilot work further 50 reliability testing. Results: A 27-item to issues (AEOLI) questionnaire. Discussion: In modern times, death dying predominantly occurs among yet we know very little about people's care. The AEOLI can be used scale surveys elicit on end-of life considered important by professionals.

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