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Method: Participants: 286 first course students and 165 third course students at the Nursing School of the Catholic University of Valencia.
Procedure: Bugen’s Coping with Death questionnaire was distributed. It is a one-dimensional instrument consisting of 30 items, for which there is a Spanish translation. In current literature, questionnaires related to death are considered to tend to a multidimensional quality evaluation. In order to guarantee the coherent verification of the multidimensional quality in these questionnaires, a theoretical factor analysis is performed, resulting in five factors and the exclusion of some items which cannot be grouped together with these or other dimensions. Then, a Confirmatory Factor Analysis is used to check the measurement model validity.
Results: The Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the five factor model was an adequate fit (NNFI: .904; CFI: .920; IFI: .921 y RMSEA: .052). Nevertheless, the reliability study suggests excluding dimension 5 (Cronbach’s alpha .484). After excluding this dimension, the factor model continues to perform well (NNFI: .917; CFI: .934; IFI: .934 y RMSEA: .066).
Conclusion: A brief multidimensional scale to measure death competence (MSMDC) is considered to be an acceptable instrument to measure Nursing School students’ death competence. This scale includes competence specifications besides the fact that it can be implemented quickly.
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