CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT TO EVALUATE WOMEN'S HEALTH IN PRIMARY CARE
Women's Health. Primary Health Care. Health Assessment. Validation Studies. Psychometric properties.
The increase in population and life expectancy, coupled with the broad expansion and strengthening of Primary Health Care, competes for new aspects of longitudinal and integral care to be drawn, and in the meantime, mention is made of the construction and validation of an instrument that presents characteristics peculiar to the area of women's health and that is guiding to a public assistance with quality in the primary services in Brazil. This study aimed to gather evidence of validity based on the content of the text, the response process, the internal structure and the reliability of the Women's Health Assessment Tool in Primary Care, in order to be used by health professionals and researchers to evaluate important indicators of women's health and, through public management, for the purpose of planning and evaluating actions aimed at the public. For that, a validation study was conducted, whose guidelines and methodology were anchored in the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. The Instrument for Assessment of Women's Health in Primary Care presented acceptable psychometric properties of content validity and response process, which shows its conceptual and semantic quality, is valid and the answers are reliable for women in the age group of 18 to 69, since it was designed to assess the health needs of women within the organization logic of Primary Health Care, which considers the essential attributes and derivatives.