Development and validation of scales for attitudes, self-reported practices, difficulties and knowledge among home care nurses providing palliative care.

Purpose: Although educational programs for nurses are required to ensure high-quality home care, there is currently no scale to appropriately evaluate such programs for home care nurses providing palliative care. We developed and validated four scales to evaluate home care nurses' attitude, self-reported practices, difficulties, and knowledge regarding home palliative cancer care, and identified factors associated with home care nurses' attitude, self-reported practices, and difficulties.

Method: The scale items were generated based on literature review and a cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted.