Validation of an instrument for investigating knowledge on the initial assistance to burns victims

Abstract

This study featured a methodological quantitative approach and its objective was to validate an instrument on the initial assistance given to burns victims, on medical and nursing knowledge, using the theoretical stage of Pasquali's model. The data were collected in June - August 2008, in two parts: analysis of face validity and content validity by 18 judges; and analysis of internal consistency, undertaken through Item Response Theory, by 42 doctors and nurses from a teaching hospital in the North-West region of the Brazilian state of Paraná. Following the judges' analysis, 35 questions regarding general, medical and nursing knowledge showed agreement above 80% for the concepts. Through the internal consistency analysis applied to the general knowledge questions, three were discarded due to not being correlated with the construct. The remaining seven questions (70%) presented low discrimination of the respondents, varying levels of difficulty, and similar probabilities of correct random guesses. The final instrument contains 32 questions and is available for use.

Initial care to burn victims: nursing students' knowledge: a cross-sectional study

“…In order to collect data, we used a tool developed for research into knowledge regarding the provision of initial care to burn victims in emergency units. It is a modular and structured tool, self-administered, with multiple-choice questionnaire, divided into four blocks: Block I: sociodemographic and socioeconomic characteristics script, adapted from Santos (13) ; Block II: sources of information and school situation script, also adapted from Santos (13) ; Block III: script concerning primary contact of the students with the theme and their degree of interest in it, prepared for the purposes of this study; and Block IV: a questionnaire for analysis of knowledge about the provision of initial care to burn victims, developed and validated by Balan (5) . The questionnaire for the analysis of knowledge about the initial care of burn victims (5) contains 27 questions relating to AIQ, with three response options (agree, disagree, do not know).…”

“…Research studies concerning knowledge about the proper care of burn victims -conducted in Australia (2) , the Netherlands (3) , England (4) and Brazil (5) with health professionals, including nurses -have shown gaps in theoretical knowledge and its attendant technical-assistance practices.…”

Assessment of teaching and learning burn treatment basics among medical students

“…The questionnaire (Annex 1) was constructed and validated through the study "Construction of a questionnaire to analyze the knowledge about the initial attendance of burns", performed in 2008 3 .…”

Primary Health Care professionals’ knowledge about initial care for burn victims

“…Professionals are responsible for the direct treatment of the less severe patients. At the same time, they should be integrated with the whole care network and other levels of attention in the follow-up of other cases (10)(11)(12) .…”

“…Therefore knowledge in initial care for burn victims is crucial, allowing to reduce its risk of morbidity and mortality and defining as a set of information pertinent to a certain area based on established scientific principles (12) . It becomes an indispensable tool for the professional to act in different situations of daily practice providing the ability to use and integrate this knowledge.…”