Instrumento de evaluación (acrónimo tigre) del proceso de cicatrización por deterioro de la integridad cutánea. Evaluation instrument (acronym tiger) of the healing process due to the deterioration of cutaneous integrity.

Abstract

Open skin lesions worldwide and in Latin America are a public health problem (it occupies the first places of morbidity and mortality). In Venezuela, given the geographical, historical, demographic, political, institutional, economic, technological, perceptual, and cultural beliefs that influence morbidity and mortality, and they pose a challenge to health workers (nurses and doctors, among others) with the process of assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating open skin injuries. To achieve this, the available instruments have difficulty in handling because they have languages which are different to the Spanish, a unidimensional approach, static, designed only for certain clinical diagnoses and with a strict biomedical context (not comprehensive), with poorly defined validity and reliability. In this sense, the objective is to build an evaluation instrument (IE) (acronym TIGER) for the healing process due to deterioration of skin integrity. The study proposes a qualitative-quantitative, non-experimental, longitudinal approach, with a sample of 250 trials in the opinion of the researcher. Developed in three stages: 1) Bibliographic review, 2) Construction of the instrument, 3) Determine the clinical-metric properties: Content Validity Index (CVI), Cronbach's alpha, Pearson's correlation, Student's t, proportions and means. Conclusion: the IE (acronym TIGER) has validity (content, construct, criteria), reliability, stability and sensitivity to measure healing. In addition, given full feasibility, it helps the nursing process for effective actions.