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SynthesisQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2023

A systematic review of instruments measuring the quality of dying and death in Asian countries.

Shuo Xu, Yue Fang, Hanzhang Chen, Kang Sun, Chen Zhang, Yang Liu

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Synthesis in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  1. Japanese Version of the Quality of Dying and Death in the PICU Instrument: Development and Validation in Eight Centers in Japan.Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · 2026
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6 authors.

Shuo XuDepartment of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. shuoxu@ruc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1722-9023
Yue FangDepartment of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Hanzhang ChenDepartment of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Kang SunSchool of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
Chen ZhangDepartment of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Yang LiuDepartment of Social Work and Social Policy, School of Sociology and Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.

Funding

fund for building world-class universities (disciplines) of Renmin University of China 2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study aimed to systematically identify, appraise, and summarize the psychometric properties of instruments used to measure the quality of dying and death in Asian countries.

methodsThe Consensus-based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) was closely followed. The literature was searched using the following keywords and their synonyms: "death and dying," "measurement," and "Asian country" in CINAHL, PubMed, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library from inception to April 2021. Two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts and reviewed the full text. Two other reviewers independently assessed the quality of the identified studies in three steps: methodological quality evaluation, good measurement properties evaluation, and quality of evidence evaluation.

resultsThis review retrieved 37,195 studies, of which seven were finally included. Four instruments that assessed the quality of dying and death in Asian countries were identified: the Good Death Inventory (GDI), the Good Death Scale (GDS), and two versions of the Quality of Dying and Death (QODD) Questionnaires. All included studies failed to evaluate all the recommended psychometric properties, and none of the instruments provided strong evidence of their quality among Asian populations. Overall, the grade of evidence quality for the GDI was moderate, the highest among all identified instruments.

conclusionThe GDI is by far the most reliable instrument for assessing the quality of dying and death in Asian populations. A lack of validation studies in Asian and Western cultures, however, warrants caution when drawing conclusions from the GDI.

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AsianDeathQuality of LifeConsensusHealth StatusHumansPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesAsian countriesMeasurement propertiesQuality of dying and deathSystematic review

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PMID36441382

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