EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN VIDEO FORMAT FOR PREVENTION OF PRIMARY NEONATAL BLOOD CURRENT INFECTION
Catheter-Related Infections ; Instructional Film and Video.; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal ; Patient Safety; Validation Study.
Introduction: Health care-related infections are directly related to care procedures or hospitalizations in health services. Among the different types of HAI, primary bloodstream infections (IPCS) stand out as one of the main causes of in-hospital morbidity and mortality. In addition, they are among the main infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), associated with the increase in the length of stay of these patients and high hospital costs, representing a worrying public health problem. Objective: To build and validate an Educational Technology (ET) in video format for health professionals about the prevention of primary neonatal bloodstream infection. Methods: Methodological study regarding the construction and validation of an educational technology in video format on the theme Prevention of Primary Neonatal Blood Stream Infection, from August 2021 to July 2022. The research was conceived from a cycle of improvement initiated with the care team in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a tertiary care hospital, in the interior of Ceará, in which the need for guidance of professionals regarding the prevention of primary infection of the neonatal bloodstream was recognized. The video was built from scientific evidence about good practices in the prevention of IPCS in neonatology. This was followed by the stage of content and appearance validation by the judges (professionals and specialist professors in the areas of neonatology, communication and designer) and the target audience (professionals working in the neonatology area). For validation, a Likert scale was used, and items with agreement rates greater than or equal to 70% were considered validated. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics. 18 expert judges and 28 professionals working in the NICU participated. The necessary changes were made, with the help of the designer, to edit the final version of the video. Ethical precepts related to resolutions were metNo.466/2012; No.510/2016 e No.580/2018. Results: The content and appearance of the video images were validated by the judges with an average agreement rate of suitability of 98.14% and 98.78% among the target audience. Most of the judges (77.8%) considered the ET totally suitable for promoting learning in different hospital contexts in the area of neonatology. In addition, 100% of the judges stated that the material addresses the issues necessary for training the target audience. It was highlighted that 17.9% of the target audience stated that they had never had access to educational material on the prevention of IPCS in neonatology and emphasized that video will help in professional performance and can also be used by any professional working in the neonatology area. Conclusion: The video was validated in all evaluated domains and can be used as a permanent education tool by the team of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.