Validation of a counseling guide for adherence to antiretroviral therapy using implementation science

Elaboration and implementation of a protocol for the Golden Hour of premature newborns using an Implementation Science lens

OBJECTIVE

describe the process of designing and implementing a care protocol for the first hour of life of premature newborns.

METHOD

a participatory research study using an implementation science framework, the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) was employed to determine drivers and facilitators of implementation success of the Golden Hour protocol for newborns at a large university hospital in southeastern Brazil. A multi-professional team, including first line providers and managers participated in six stages of quality improvement: situational diagnosis; protocol elaboration; training protocol implementation; barrier and facilitator assessment; and protocol monitoring and review. Qualitative and monitoring data collected across these six stages were analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis.

RESULTS

the institution's Golden Hour protocol was organized by the multi-professional team based on a collective and dialogical approach. The protocol prioritized the infant's cardiopulmonary stability, as well as prevention of hypothermia, hypoglycemia and infection. After four months of implementation, the care team was evaluated the protocol as a good quality intervention, necessary for the service, low-cost and not very complex. One suggested improvement recommended was to carry out refresher training to address staff turnover.

CONCLUSION

implementation of the Golden Hour protocol introduced an appropriate and feasible neonatal care quality improvement process, which requires periodic refresher training to ensure greater adherence and better neonatal results.

Validation of a Guideline for Nurses Taking Care of Patients With Liver Cirrhosis in the Context of COVID-19 in the Emergency Department

The objective of this study was to prepare and validate the content of a guideline for nursing care of adult patients with liver cirrhosis and COVID-19 treated in the emergency department. The study was conducted in two stages: first, the guideline was developed based on an integrative literature review and existing guidelines on the topic. The guideline was prepared with six domains and 64 care items. In the second stage, 15 specialists in urgency and emergency services performed content validation of the guideline. The data were analyzed using the Content Validity Index, with reliability assessed through Cronbach's α. The judges validated the guide regarding language clarity, objectivity, theoretical relevance, and practical pertinence. The value of the guideline's Content Validity Index was 0.96. Cronbach's α reliability reached a value of 0.93. The judges validated all domains and items of the guideline for theoretical relevance and practical pertinence, to be used by researchers and clinical practice professionals in the nursing area.

[Construction and validation of an instrument on the intended use of condoms among socially vulnerable women]

The scope of this article is to build and validate an instrument to measure the intention to use condoms among women in a context of social vulnerability. It involved methodological research, the elaboration stage of which involved 111 women from a previous study, and the content validation stage had 166 participants, including female frequenters of a healthcare service, specialized referees and teachers. In the validation process, the Content Validity Index per Item, General Content Validity Index and Cronbach's Alpha were used. The instrument included 29 items and had a General Content Validity Index of 0.99. The semantic validation resulted in the insertion of pictorial signs in the response scales. The pilot study generated Cronbach's alpha of 0.61 (CI: 0.48-0.72). The validated instrument is a tool that can assist health workers and researchers in predicting condom use, providing input for preventive interventions towards safe sexual practices among women in situations of social vulnerability.

Construction and validation of an instrument for classifying nipple and areola complex lesions resulting from breastfeeding

OBJECTIVES

to construct and validate a classification of nipple and areola complex lesions resulting from breastfeeding, according to content and appearance.

METHODS

this is a methodological study, developed in four stages: operational definition, instrument construction, content and appearance validation. The Delphi technique and a Likert-type scale were used to validate content and appearance, through the participation of ten and sixteen judges, respectively. For analysis, Content Validity Index and Kappa Coefficient were applied.

RESULTS

Content Validity Index obtained an overall value of 0.93 and, for appearance, 0.94. Kappa values ranged between 0.46 and 1. The high rates of agreement among judges demonstrated the quality of the proposed content validity.

CONCLUSIONS

the Nipple and Areola Complex Lesions Classification Instrument developed obtained acceptable values of its indexes, proving to be valid in terms of content and appearance.