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The Death Literacy Index (DLI) captures practical, experiential, factual, and community domains. Currently, there is limited evidence about death literacy levels among culturally and linguistically diverse communities in multicultural settings, and little is known about how translated versions of the DLI perform psychometrically in these groups or how culturally tailored, community-delivered interventions can strengthen death literacy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>(1) To evaluate the impact of culturally adapted, community-designed and delivered interventions on DLI subscale and total scores among Filipino, German, Italian, and Vietnamese communities in South Australia; and (2) to examine the preliminary psychometric properties (factor structure and reliability) of translated DLI instruments in these populations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Pre\u2013post intervention study.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Community leaders in each group co-designed and delivered a community-specific intervention over 3\u20135\u2009months using culturally familiar channels (workshops, radio\/podcasts, social media, and printed\/online resources). Thus, four parallel but distinct interventions were implemented, one in each cultural\/language community. The DLI was professionally translated (German, Italian, Tagalog, Vietnamese) with community review. Surveys were administered in preferred languages at baseline (T1) and ~6\u2009weeks post-intervention (T2). Psychometrics (T1,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009242): confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and reliability. Impact (matched pairs,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009100): Wilcoxon signed-rank tests.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Psychometrics (T1,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009228): Subscale CFAs supported the translated DLI across groups, while the total-scale fit was poor \u2013 reinforcing a multidimensional construct; internal consistency was good\u2013excellent overall, with weaker reliability for Talking Support subscale (Vietnamese) and some variability in Experiential Knowledge. Intervention impact (matched pairs,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u2009100): Filipino participants showed significant increases in median scores across all four DLI subscales and the total DLI score (medium\u2013large effects); Vietnamese participants showed significant decreases in Practical Knowledge and total DLI scores, with little change on other subscales; German and Italian groups demonstrated small, mostly non-significant increases on selected DLI subscales (particularly Factual and Community Knowledge), with minimal change in total DLI scores. Across groups, DLI subscales capturing knowledge of resources and supports generally improved.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Culturally tailored, community-delivered interventions can strengthen death literacy, but effects vary by cultural\/linguistic context. DLI subscales function adequately across groups, whereas total-scale fit is poor. Future work should refine translations (e.g. DLI-R), address weaker domains, and adapt content and delivery to community preferences to enhance cultural responsiveness and equity in end-of-life literacy. The study demonstrates how death literacy can operate as a culturally responsive, community-level public health indicator and provides evidence to guide adaptation of both the DLI and community programs to advance equity in end-of-life literacy and care.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/26323524261418687","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,26]],"date-time":"2026-04-26T14:38:52Z","timestamp":1777214332000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Strengthening death literacy in multicultural communities: Community-led interventions and cross-cultural validation of the Death Literacy Index"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3209-7831","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Lakhani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia"},{"name":"The Hopkins Centre, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Meadowbrook, QLD, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8648-8013","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Georgia","family":"Rowley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Florine","family":"Dsouza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5349-5041","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kerrie","family":"Noonan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia"},{"name":"Western NSW Local Health District, Dubbo, NSW, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jaklin","family":"Eliott","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/09699260.2015.1103498"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/07481187.2021.1894268"},{"key":"e_1_3_3_4_2","volume-title":"Ottawa charter on health promotion","author":"World Health Organization","year":"1986","unstructured":"World Health Organization. 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