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Nursing Diagnosis Development of Longing: Content Validation With Nursing Experts
Shelley-Rae Pehler1, Michelle Markwardt1, Danielle Hibbard1
1College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Objectives:
Validate the defining characteristics, related factors, and definition of proposed nursing diagnosis: longing.
Method:
Using Fehring's Diagnostic Content Validation model, expert nurses rated the frequency of longing seen in patients/caregivers. Agreement with the proposed definition was also tabulated.
Findings:
None of the defining characteristics reached major criteria (>0.80). Six of the 84 characteristics achieved a weighted ratio of less than 0.50. The proposed definition and related factors were supported.
Conclusion:
Current research supports the proposed development of a nursing diagnosis for the human response of longing.
Practice Implications:
Because the psychosocial characteristics do not make longing easy to assess, continued research is needed to ask patients and caregivers about their personal experience with this human response.
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