CLINICAL VALIDATION OF NURSING RESULTS MOBILITY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH CHIKUNGUNYA
Chikungunya fever; Aged; Nursing outcomes; Validation studies.
In the spectrum of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases, there is Chikungunya Fever, which despite the low mortality potential, stands out due to the symptomatology presented, which affects children and the elderly more intensely. The strong joint pain manifested by the disease can last for months or even years, capable of compromising the quality of life of those affected. The objective of this study was to clinically validate the Nursing Nursing Outcome in the elderly with Chikungunya Fever. It is a methodological study carried out in three stages: integrative literature review, semantic validation and clinical validation. The first step will be through an integrative review for instrument adaptation validated in a previous study. For the semantic and clinical validation steps, the principles described by Psychometrics will be applied. The study will be developed in the center of specialized care for elderly health in the municipality of Natal / RN and will be composed of elderly people with Chikungunya Fever who meet the eligibility criteria, selected for convenience and consecutively. The sample will be constituted by calculation based on the nine indicators contained in the final version of the instrument for clinical validation stage, it is recommended from five to 10 individuals for each item of the instrument. Thus, a sample of 90 patients will be considered initially. The data collection will be performed by two pairs of evaluating nurses, one with the instrument containing the Nursing Outcome Mobility found in the Nursing Outcomes Classification and the other with an instrument composed of the constitutive and operational definitions. The data will be organized in spreadsheet in the Microsoft Office Excel 2012 program and exported to the statistical program Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 22.0 for Windows. For descriptive analysis, the measures of the distribution center and its variabilities will be calculated. The Friedman test will be applied to verify divergence between evaluators with previous post hoc analysis by the least significant difference method in cases of statistically significant difference. The intraclass correlation coefficient will be calculated to compare the correlation of the evaluations performed by the nurses evaluators and the Cronbach Alpha coefficient to verify the internal consistency of the double evaluators. The study is approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte under Certificate of Presentation for Ethical Appreciation nº 64880017.9.0000.5537.