Exploring Specialist Palliative Care Practitioner Perspectives on the Face Validity of the Attitude to Health Change Scales in Assessing the Impact of Life-limiting Illness on Patients and Carers

• Published in: Journal of palliative care Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 175 - 183
• Main Authors: Machin, Linda, Walshe, Catherine, Dunleavy, Lesley
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Attitude of Health Personnel; Caregivers - psychology; Female; Focus Groups; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Palliative Care - standards; Psychometrics - instrumentation; Qualitative Research; Reproducibility of Results; Surveys and Questionnaires; United Kingdom; United Kingdom; family caregiver; psychosocial support systems; palliative care; resilience; patient outcome assessment

Background: Identifying and assessing vulnerability and resilience through reflexive reactions and conscious coping responses to life-limiting illness is an important, but rarely assessed, component of care. The novel Attitude to Health Change scales can contribute to this, but require fuller develo...