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Construction and validation of the Self-care Assessment Instrument for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Simonize Cunha Barreto de Mendonça1, Maria Lúcia Zanetti2, Namie Okino Sawada2
1MSc, RN, Hospital Universitário de Sergipe, Aracaju, SE, Brazil.
Objective:
to construct and validate the contents of the Self-care Assessment instrument for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Method:
methodological study, based on Orem's General Theory of Nursing. The empirical categories and the items of the instrument were elucidated through a focus group. The content validation process was performed by seven specialists and the semantic analysis by 14 patients. The Content Validity Indices of the items, ≥0.78, and of the scale, ≥0.90, were considered excellent.
Results:
the instrument contains 131 items in six dimensions corresponding to the health deviation self-care requisites. Regarding the maintenance, a Content Validity Index of 0.98 was obtained for the full set of items, and, regarding the relevance, Content Validity Indices ≥0.80 were obtained for the majority of the assessed psychometric criteria.
Conclusion:
the instrument showed evidence of content validity.
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