Abstract
Coping with some chronic condition and life threatening disease
warrants experience of grief. An indigenous scale for assessment of grief
experienced by Cancer patients was developed and validated in the
present study. The items were generated through literature review,
interviews with cancer patients and psychologists. Scale contained 30
items and it was administered on 250 cancer patients and data was
subjected to factor analysis which yielded four factors i.e., Physical,
Emotional, Cognitive, and Social components of grief. For the present
sample, scale showed very high reliability (α = .93). Convergent validity
of Grief scale was determined against grief subscale totals of Palliative
Grief Depression Scale. Correlation analysis indicated high correlation
between two scales’ scores (r =.63, p < .01) thereby revealing high
convergent validity of the indigenous scale. Discriminant validity was
measured by comparing the sums of the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire
with Grief Scale. Significant negative relationship was found between
these two scales (r = -.29, p < .01). Psychometric properties of Grief
Scale showed that it is a valid and reliable too for assessing experience of
grief in Cancer patients in the Pakistani cultural context.
Hana Arshad, Amina Muazzam. (2016) Development and Validation of Grief Scale (GS) for Cancer Patients, Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume 26, Issue 1.
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