Translating the Patient Dignity Inventory

Analysis of the construct of dignity and content validity of the patient dignity inventory

BACKGROUND Maintaining dignity, the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect, is considered as a goal of palliative care. The aim of this study was to analyse the construct of personal dignity and to assess the content validity of the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI) in people with an advance directive in the Netherlands. METHODS Data were collected within the framework of an advance direc...

The patient dignity inventory: a novel way of measuring dignity-related distress in palliative care.

Quality palliative care depends on a deep understanding of distress facing patients nearing death. Yet, many aspects of psychosocial, existential and spiritual distress are often overlooked. The aim of this study was to test a novel psychometric--the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI)--designed to measure various sources of dignity-related distress among patients nearing the end of life. Using sta...

PATIENT DIGNITY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RELATIONSHIP ii PATIENT DIGNITY: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RELATIONSHIP

A preliminary study of Patient Dignity Inventory validation among patients hospitalized in an acute psychiatric ward

PURPOSE To investigate the perception of dignity among patients hospitalized in a psychiatric setting using the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI), which had been first validated in oncologic field among terminally ill patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS After having modified two items, we administered the Italian version of PDI to all patients hospitalized in a public psychiatric ward (Service of Ps...

Patient dignity inventory (PDI) questionnaire: the validation study in Italian patients with solid and hematological cancers on active oncological treatments.

BACKGROUNDS In Oncology, little is known about dignity-related distress and the issues that influence the sense of dignity for patients. We validated the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI) questionnaire in Italian patients on oncological active treatments. METHODS After the translation procedures, the PDI was administered to 266 patients along with other questionnaires to assess the psychometric...