Table 2.

Factor Analysis and Reliability of Death Pronouncement Burden Scale (n = 128)

Mean (SD), 50.5 (15.2); Cronbach's α coefficient = 0.94; ICC, 0.89	Factor loading	Communalities
I find it hard to explain the patient's death to his or her family	0.86	0.73
I feel awkward talking with the patient's family just after the death pronouncement	0.85	0.73
I feel nervous when I am asked to pronounce a patient's death	0.84	0.70
I feel uncertain about the death pronouncement procedure	0.83	0.70
I feel uncertain about when I should enter the patient's room for the death pronouncement	0.83	0.69
I find it difficult to decide when to pronounce the patient's death to his or her family	0.82	0.68
I rarely have the right words to comfort the family	0.81	0.66
I feel that it is hard to know what to say to the family in consideration of their emotions	0.80	0.63
I feel that I cannot pronounce a patient's death with confidence	0.77	0.60
I feel anxious about the patient's family members' personalities and how they will respond	0.77	0.59
I feel uneasy when I am asked to pronounce a patient's death	0.75	0.57
I feel unsure about whether I should talk with the patient's family after the death pronouncement	0.73	0.54
I feel unsure about whether I should talk with the patient's family before the death pronouncement	0.73	0.54
I am not confident enough to fill out the death certificate form correctly	0.72	0.52
I find it more difficult to pronounce a patient's death when I am not the patient's primary physician	0.68	0.46

Cumulative proportion, 64.6%.

ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient.