Objective This study aimed to evaluate and validate the performance of a Chinese version of a Likert-type death anxiety scale for colorectal cancer patients. Methods This study assessed the death anxiety of 50 colorectal cancer patients, which were selected by convenience sampling method, by using the Chinese version of a Likert-type Templer death anxiety scale (CL-TDAS) on the first day of admission. Results Most of the respondents finished the entire scale in 3–5?min, and the recovery rate was 94.0%. Cronbach's α indicated that the internal consistency was 0.821 for the complete 15 items, and the correlation between the CL-TDAS and the C-TDAS (non-Likert-type) was 0.79( P ??0.05). The structural validity of the CL-TDAS revealed that the scale items accounted for 63.78% of the total variability, and that the four-component structure of the data well fitted the model. The mean score of the CL-TDAS was 36.16?±?9.99 (first day of admission). Conclusion The CL-TDAS showed reliable performance and can thus be a promising instrument for evaluating the death anxiety of cancer patients. Death anxiety varied for different periods and different genders.
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