Construção e validação do questionário: avaliação do conhecimento dos enfermeiros atuantes da atenção primária sobre alimentação infantil

Abstract

The monitoring of growth and development is part of the complete evaluation of a child's health. During the nursing consultation of a child's health, guidelines on proper infant feeding is also important. The continuous and systematic evaluation of the knowledge of the healthcare professionals is extremely important. The use of questionnaires as instruments for the evaluation of clinical practices has great influence on decisions about care, treatment and/or interventions. The objective was to elaborate and validate a questionnaire on child nutrition by content judges regarding language clarity, practical relevance and theoretical relevance. This is a methodological development study, in which a questionnaire was elaborated on infant feeding based on the Child Health: Infant nutrition: breastfeeding and complementary feeding of the Ministry of Health, from the year 2015, and validated by selected content judges based on the Jasper's criteria. For the validation of the questionnaire, 15 content judges were selected. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.0. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Ceará. The questionnaire has 21 questions, 4 questions about breastfeeding; 4 questions about routine complementary feeding; 4 questions on preparation/storage recommendations and quantity/texture of foods, 3 questions on infant formula and milk dilution, and 6 questions on general aspects of complementary feeding. Modifications were made to the instrument based on the suggestions of the judges. In the validation, the judges attributed overall IVC of 0.72 for language clarity, 0.91 for practical relevance and 0.93 for theoretical relevance and Global IVC of the questionnaire of 0.86. The literature proposed by Norwood (2006), which was followed in the present study, considers a valid item when the IVC is equal to or greater than 0.8. It was concluded that the questionnaire was validated regarding the content for the evaluation of the knowledge of nurses working in basic care about infant feeding.