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Chloe Apps1, Kate Brooks2, Ella Terblanche2
1Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; GKT School of Medical Education, King's College London, Guy's Campus, London, United Kingdom.
Objective:
To develop an expert-informed (including end users) recovery goal menu for adults recovering from critical illness applicable to the community/home setting.
Research Methodology/Design:
Stage 1 Item generation: iterative development of domains, sub-domains, and goals in consultation with former intensive care patients, family members and expert clinicians. Stage 2 Content validity assessment: cognitive interviews and the content validity index.
Setting:
Virtual consultation meetings facilitated by the research team at King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
Main Outcome Measures:
Content validity as assessed by: the Item-Content Validity Index (I-CVI), Scale Level-Content Validity Index/Universal Agreement (S-CVI/UA) score, the Scale Level-Content Validity Index/Average (S-CVI/Ave) score and Average Content Validity Ratio (CVR).
Results:
Item generation resulted in a goal menu comprising 4 domains, 22 sub-domains and 95 goals assigned as follows: Self-care: 9 sub-domains with 37 goals, Productivity: 7 sub-domains with 13 goals, Leisure: 3 sub-domains with 25 goals, and Person domain 3 sub-domains with 20 goals. Cognitive interviews resulted in addition of 79 goals and modification of 7, addition of 4 new sub-domains and modification of 4, thus resulting in 4 domains, 26 sub-domains with a total of 174 goals. Twenty-four sub-domains (169 goals) were deemed relevant with Item-Content Validity Index (I-CVI) scores ranging from 0.72 to 1. Two sub-domains (5 goals) did not meet the 0.7 cut-off and were removed. The Scale Level-Content Validity Index/Universal Agreement (S-CVI/UA) score was 0.46; the Scale Level-Content Validity Index/Average (S-CVI/Ave) 0.91. Average Content Validity Ratio (CVR) was 0.93.
Conclusion:
An expert informed recovery goal menu for former intensive care patients has been developed with excellent content validity. The final goal menu comprises 169 goals within 24 sub-domains grouped under 4 domains.
Implications For Clinical Practice:
This menu will help patients to set goals and increase our understanding of how individuals recover from critical illness.
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