Validation of Instruments for the Study of Benchmarking in Ophthalmology Nursing

Abstract

Introduction: The use of competitive benchmarking for the study of processes that influence on ophthalmology nursing quality requires the validation of instruments for the achievement of the expected results.

Objective: To describe the construction and validation of instruments for the study of processes related to nursing quality in ophthalmology.

Methods: A instrumental study was carried out at Instituto Cubano de Oftalmología “Ramón Pando Ferrer” in the period January-July 2020. It had two phases: the construction of the instruments, and the validation of comprehension or appearance and content. For the design, the tasks that each studied process includes in their respective files were taken into account, while the validation of comprehension and content was performed by means of consultation with professionals and experts, as well as the Barraza method, which integrates the quantitative evaluation of the items making up the instruments.

Results: In the validation of comprehension or appearance, more than 94% of the items did not have any changes since the first consultation round, while only four items required modifications in the way of approaching the proposed questions; the instruments received an evaluation of more than 2.6 according to the experts' assessment, which provides them with strong content validity.

Conclusion: The performed validation allowed to confirm the relevance of the instruments designed for the study in reference to good practices, as well as the hospitalization, emergency care and sterilization processes, at Instituto Cubano de Oftalmología “Ramón Pando Ferrer”