"Autonomy & Management in Prison Nursing". Development and validation of a mobile application

To describe the process of development and validation of the content and semantics of the "Autonomy & Management in Prison Nursing" application for nurses working in prison units in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

This methodological study employed the Contextualized Instructional Design method, following its four recommended stages: analysis, design and development, implementation, and evaluation. In the first phase, 164 nursing professionals participated by completing a semi-structured questionnaire addressing working conditions and professional autonomy. In the second phase, the application was developed with the support of an information technology professional. The third phase consisted of configuring and making the application available. Finally, in the fourth phase, content validation was carried out by 23 specialized judges and semantic validation by 51 nurses.

The content validation of the application was satisfactory, as all indicators - total agreement rate, Content Validity Index (0.962; p<0.01), and overall Cronbach's Alpha coefficient (0.969) - reached satisfactory levels. Semantic validation was also satisfactory, as all Cronbach's Alpha coefficients achieved high values, indicating correlation among the items and excellent reliability of the application.

The "Autonomy & Management in Prison Nursing" application was developed and demonstrated satisfactory evaluation regarding both content and semantics, showing good adaptation to the proposed criteria and high internal consistency among the items.