Psychometric evaluation of the anticipatory grief scale in a sample of family caregivers in the context of palliative care

摘要

IntroductionIn palliative care, family caregivers are often faced with experiences of grief in anticipation of the loss of a close person. An instrument designed to measure this form of grief is the Anticipatory Grief Scale, which includes 27 items and has been used in several studies in various contexts. However, the instrument has not been validated.