Content Validation of the Nursing Diagnosis Acute Pain in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Abstract

Purpose

The main purpose of the study was to validate the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis acute pain in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Methods

This is a descriptive study. The validation process involved was based on Fehring's diagnostic content validity model.

Findings

Four defining characteristics were classified as major by Slovak nurses and eight defining characteristics were classified as major by Czech nurses.

Conclusion

Validation of the nursing diagnosis acute pain in the Czech and Slovak sociocultural context has shown that nurses prioritize characteristics that are behavioral in nature as well as patients' verbal reports of pain.

Practice Implications

Verbal reports of pain and behavioral indicators are important for arriving at the nursing diagnosis acute pain.

Cíl

Hlavním cílem studie bylo ověřit určující znaky ošetřovatelské diagnózy Akutní bolest v České republice a Slovenské republice.

Metódy

Toto je deskriptivní studie. Proces validace byl proveden na základě Fehringova modelu diagnostické validity obsahu.

Výsledky

Za hlavní určující znaky byly souborem slovenských sester označeny čtyři znaky a souborem českých sester bylo za hlavní označeno osm znaků.

Závěr

Validace ošetřovatelské diagnózy Akutní bolest v českém a slovenském sociokulturním kontextu ukázala, že sestry upřednostňují určující znaky behaviorální povahy a slovní vyjádření bolesti pacienta.

Závěry pro Praxi

Slovní vyjádření bolesti a také behaviorální charakteristiky jsou důležité pro určení ošetřovatelské diagnózy Akutní bolest.

Keywords

Acute pain defining characteristic nursing diagnosis validation

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