Construção e Validação de protocolo clínico para utilização de pessário vaginal

Abstract

The pelvic organ prolapse is regarded as the descent of the pelvic contents and/or by intraperitoneal vaginal canal. Among the types of conservative treatments, it has the pessary. It is understood that the use of the device is a viable option as it is a first-line treatment, low cost and low risk. Consultation with women with this injury needs to be systematized, and, among the tools that help in this systematization, there is the use of clinical protocols. Thus, the overall objective of the study was to develop a clinical protocol for the conservative treatment of pelvic organ prolapse with vaginal pessary. It was a development of research which took place from July 2015 to January 2016, dividing into five steps: 1) Refinement of topics/issues of the Protocol; 2) Systematic review; 3) Establishment of recommendations for research and update the guideline/protocol; 4) Review by the protocol peers; 5) Dissemination planning guideline/protocol, including location and evaluation. The instrument used for assessing the quality of the protocol was the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation. The analysis was done by SPSS version 20.0, the Content Validity Index and its own formula of assessment tool that calculates the protocol quality score. To refine topics/issues of the clinical protocol, was held electronic brainstorming with five professionals Urogynecology area, interview with four users of vaginal pessary and immersion of the researcher in the service. After delimitation of the guiding threads, held integrative review through the databases PubMed/MEDLINE, LILACS, Scopus, Cochrane Library, CRD, WEB OF SCIENCE and REBRATS, using controlled descriptors "pelvic organ prolapse", "pessaries" and "pessary", and in published books in order to select studies for the foundation of the clinical protocol. The search ended with 44 articles. The protocol was created in the form of text, tables, figures and flow charts in 13 sessions with their subsections. For the review of the clinical protocol, we used the Delphi technique with seven health professionals, verifying compliance of 0.85 or more through the Content Validity Index already in the first round. In the last step was performed to evaluate the quality protocol with four health professionals selected by defined criteria, using the above instrument. The scores obtained in each sector were: Domain 1 - Scope and Purpose: 100%; Area 2 - Stakeholder engagement: 95.8%; Area 3 - Rigor of Development: 98.9%; Domain 4 - Clarity of presentation: 95.8%; Area 5 - Applicability: 79.2%; Area 6 - Editorial Independence: 93.7%. The score of the domain 5 was lower because the judges do not comply with criteria for monitoring/auditing the protocol. In this overall assessment, the judges recommended the use of guidelines with modifications. The protocol has undergone modifications, adjustments and additions to enhance their quality. It is believed that health professionals, to use the clinical protocol, feel safer in the realization of care to women with prolapse in conservative approach with pessary, acquiring greater knowledge on which to base their practice and providing a higher quality of care, as it is a valuable tool and guided by scientific evidence.