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Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine | ISSN: 2165-7386 | Volume 8
August 27-28, 2018 | Boston, USA
4th International Conference on
Palliative Care, Medicine and Hospice Nursing
Development and initial cross-cultural validation of the Confucian Orientation Beliefs scale (COB)
Yvonne Hsiung and In-Fun Li
Mackay Medical College, Taiwan
Aseries of cross-cultural studies were conducted to develop and validate a cultural measure, Confucian Orientation Beliefs
(COB) Scale. The original 66-item acculturation scale was constructed among Chinese-American immigrants residing in
greater Chicago area (n=211) with specific aims to assess a broad range of traditional Chinese beliefs. Through examinations
of content validity, internal consistency (α = .86), and an inter-item correlation of .27 (p<.001), the initial exploratory factor
analysis (EFA) suggested 3 principal components: familialism (α = .84), male and physician paternalism (α = .82), and death
taboos (α = .89). CO among overseas Chinese was found highly positively correlated with American acculturation, attitudes
toward life-sustaining treatment, and palliative care usage. A following confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was supported with
a goodness of fit of 0.95 in a relatively smaller Taiwan suburban sample (n = 122). Further EFA and CFA among hospitalized
patients from various Taiwan areas (n =508) yielded a slightly different structure: male paternalism, filial piety, and death taboo
jointly captured a salient cultural factor (α = .83); a single dimension was revealed as an individual’s propensity to conform to
Confucian traditions, and this orientation is specifically related to life-sustaining treatment attitudes (AVE= 55.39, AGFI= .966,
p= .009). A data-driven and efficient tool, the 6-item COB scale (short form), was created with strong psychometric properties.
While CO remains prominent in modern Chinese-ethnic societies to affect family caregivers’ life-sustaining treatment
decision-making, future research is necessary to replicate studies for temporal stability across heterogeneous Chinese-speaking
and Confucianism-oriented samples.
Biography
Yvonne Hsiung received her Ph.D. in Palliative Care Nursing in 2011. Being an ethical consultant for terminal patients and family surrogates, her previous research,
teaching, and clinical experiences mostly focused on the health promotion, community education, and cultural advance care planning among minority groups in the
Greater Chicago Area. She returned to Taiwan in 2012 because her father required cancer care. Now she is at Mackay Medical College teaching courses about
Oncology Nursing, Palliative Care, Medical Ethics, Spiritual Nursing Care, and Life and Death Education.
Yvonne Hsiung et al., J Palliat Care Med 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7386-C3-020