A nursing interface terminology: Evaluation of face validity

Abstract

A range of different language systems for nursing diagnosis, interventions and outcomes are currently available. Nursing terminologies are intended to support nursing practice but they have to be evaluated. This study aims to assess the results of an expert survey to establish the face validity of a nursing interface terminology. The study applied a descriptive design with a cross-sectional survey strategy using a written questionnaire administered to expert nurses working in hospitals. Sample size was estimated at 35 participants. The questionnaire included topics related to validity and reliability criteria for nursing controlled vocabularies described in the literature. Mean global score and criteria scoring at least 7 were considered main outcome measures. The analysis included descriptive statistics with a confidence level of 95%. The mean global score was 8.1. The mean score for the validity criteria was 8.4 and 7.8 for reliability and applicability criteria. Two of the criteria for reliability and applicability evaluation did not achieve minimum scores. According to the experts’ responses, this terminology meets face validity, but that improvements are required in some criteria and further research is needed to completely demonstrate its metric properties

Is the ATIC terminology oriented to nursing phenomena?

“…Most of its concepts are included in the nursing research literature, these concepts have been studied using different types of designs and from diverse nursing specialties. The results presented herein are consistent with the findings of a previous study on the evaluation of the face validity of the ATIC terminology [23].…”

“…Further information on the evolving status of the coverage and the general structure of this interface vocabulary, as well as its philosophical, theoretical and methodological background and other related studies are published elsewhere [17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

Precisión y exhaustividad del registro de eventos adversos mediante una terminología de interfase

“…ATIC (14) is "a nursing interface terminology, multiaxial and concept-oriented, based on the study of natural language that nurses use in their daily practice and revised for its theoretical refinement". ATIC has been subjected to qualitative validation and analysis of its metric properties (15)(16) . ATIC is routinely used in the electronic medical records (EMR) of multiple hospitals and public health centers in the public network of Catalonia (Spain) since 2007, generating more than 200,000 records of annual care episodes.…”

Validation of the Nurses’ Skills to Care for Alcohol-Intoxicated Patients in Emergency Department (NSCAIP-ED) instrument

“…Face validity evaluation was based on the opinions of the pilot group and the research group that were established for the instrument's content evaluation as well as on the results of an earlier study in which the research group stated that NSCAIP-ED instrument is usable and reliable in measuring nursing staff's skills concerning the care mentioned above (Mäkelä et al, 2020). The aim of face validity is to determine the usability of the instrument and the functionality of the layout (De Vet et al, 2011;Udina, 2012). As an indication of the usability of the NSCAIP-ED instrument, earlier use, for example, pointed out that results of instruments' scales were consistent with the background information of the respondents.…”