Past and relevant research has given researchers the ability to measure attitudes regarding end-of-life interventions for the terminally ill, associations between end-of-life interventions and quality of life, as well as characteristics that favor or do not favor such interventions. Some studies indicate that age and relationship to the terminally ill patient are associated with specific attitudes within interventions. A common attitude among all populations is to choose a method that avoids suffering. Due to the ethical and moral issues pertaining to end-of-life interventions and its association to quality of life, researchers chose to administer questionnaires with open-ended sections. Questionnaire sampling was appropriate for the study
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For instance, event measurement was used to assess religiosity in Wilson et al. (2007) through asking the person if they attend religious services. Also, they used behavior measurement by asking how often the individual prays in private. Wilson et al. (2007) is the only study that used internal states of measurement. To determine the occurrence of symptoms and concerns, participants were asked questions about each individual item. For each item, the examiner asked a uniform first question, proceeded by a semi-structured query to explore the regularity, intensity, and level of suffering accompanying the specific item (Wilson et al. 2007). Lastly, to obtain their main variable of interest, researchers asked participants again about legalization of euthanasia and PAD but this time from their perspective based on their illness. One question attended to whether, if these interventions were legal, the patient may have asked to pursue one during their illness to date. Other questions were to address if any participants could see themselves requesting one of the interventions in future and under what circumstances. The most important question asked about the participants internal state was whether they would in fact initiate a request at that time, during the time of the interview (Wilson et al. 2007). The question asked “Based on the way you are feeling today, would you …show more content…
2011; Wilson et al. 2007; Yun et al. 2001). To determine attitudes of participants, the authors computed a score of 1-4 representing if they strongly agreed, agreed, disagreed, or strongly disagreed with different end-of-life interventions (Yun et al. 2001). The Quality of Death and Dying is a 33-item questionnaire measuring the quality of death and dying as perceived by the family member (Smith et al. 2011). They used the questionnaire to analyze the frequency and quality of life based on symptom management, social support, preparation for death, and self-worth. Frequency of a percieved item was measured on a scale of 0=none of the time to 5=all of the time (Smith et al. 2011). Participants then gave their opinion on how the frequency impacted the quality of their loved one’s dying experience based on a scale from 0=terrible experience to 10=almost perfect experience (Smith et al.
For instance, event measurement was used to assess religiosity in Wilson et al. (2007) through asking the person if they attend religious services. Also, they used behavior measurement by asking how often the individual prays in private. Wilson et al. (2007) is the only study that used internal states of measurement. To determine the occurrence of symptoms and concerns, participants were asked questions about each individual item. For each item, the examiner asked a uniform first question, proceeded by a semi-structured query to explore the regularity, intensity, and level of suffering accompanying the specific item (Wilson et al. 2007). Lastly, to obtain their main variable of interest, researchers asked participants again about legalization of euthanasia and PAD but this time from their perspective based on their illness. One question attended to whether, if these interventions were legal, the patient may have asked to pursue one during their illness to date. Other questions were to address if any participants could see themselves requesting one of the interventions in future and under what circumstances. The most important question asked about the participants internal state was whether they would in fact initiate a request at that time, during the time of the interview (Wilson et al. 2007). The question asked “Based on the way you are feeling today, would you …show more content…
2011; Wilson et al. 2007; Yun et al. 2001). To determine attitudes of participants, the authors computed a score of 1-4 representing if they strongly agreed, agreed, disagreed, or strongly disagreed with different end-of-life interventions (Yun et al. 2001). The Quality of Death and Dying is a 33-item questionnaire measuring the quality of death and dying as perceived by the family member (Smith et al. 2011). They used the questionnaire to analyze the frequency and quality of life based on symptom management, social support, preparation for death, and self-worth. Frequency of a percieved item was measured on a scale of 0=none of the time to 5=all of the time (Smith et al. 2011). Participants then gave their opinion on how the frequency impacted the quality of their loved one’s dying experience based on a scale from 0=terrible experience to 10=almost perfect experience (Smith et al.