CONTENT VALIDATION BY JUDGMENT OF NUTRITIONAL SCALE EXPERTS FOR CRITICAL PATIENTS WITH ENTERAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT
CONTENT VALIDATION BY JUDGMENT OF NUTRITIONAL SCALE EXPERTS FOR CRITICAL PATIENTS WITH ENTERAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1594242423027
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Palavras-chave: nutrición enteral, unidad de cuidados intensivos, enfermería, paciente crítico, desnutrición, estudio de validación.
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Keywords: enteral nutrition, intensive care unit, nursing, critical patient, malnutrition, validation study.
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Abstract:
A state of poor nutrition in critical patients causes greater mobility and mortality. For this reason, tools such as assessment scales must be available to guide decision-making when establishing nutritional support. The objective of this study was to create and validate, by expert judgment, a scale to assess the nutritional status of critically ill patients with enteral nutritional support. Method: to create the scale, a search was carried out in different databases of studies on practices and recommendations on nutrition in critically ill patients. Once the design was generated, it was subjected to validation through a rubric, by judgment. of experts according to the Delphi technique, also determining Kendall's W coefficient. Results: once the rubric was evaluated by the experts, adjustments were made that were considered pertinent by the experts and six validation letters were obtained, which were issued by each of the experts and that support the appearance and content validity of the instrument. A satisfactory Kendall's K agreement coefficient was obtained for each of the criteria evaluated by the panel of experts, this meant that the items that were considered for the integration of the instrument were under an ideal degree of interjudge agreement. Conclusion: generating research instruments and assessment scales is an iterative procedure, it requires time and patience, but above all knowledge about the methodology to follow for its validation. Validating by expert judgment becomes relevant in situations where the information is not homogeneous or, when there is a shortage of it, nursing professionals dedicated to research must know this methodology and create valid instruments, promote the professional nature of nursing knowledge and create tools that serve the multidisciplinary team for decision making when establishing diagnoses and treatments.
- Daniel Diaz Consuelo
- María de los Ángeles Monroy Martínez
- María Antonieta Cuevas Peñaloza
- Yolanda Hernández Ortega
- Jenni Fernanda Rivera Moran