Validation of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis impaired comfort in oncology

Abstract

Objective: To validate the content of the defining characteristics of impaired comfort nursing diagnosis proposed by NANDA-I in patients under palliative care in oncology. Methods: Methodological study according to the model of diagnostic content validation of Fehring, in a sample of 53 nursing experts. The Mann-Whitney test and Spearman's correlation coefficient (P <0.05) were used to check if there were influences on expert judgment. Results: We validated the contents of seventeen defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis and seven other defining characteristics developed in this study. Nine defining characteristics were considered major, another twelve were considered minor and three were excluded. The total diagnostic score was 0.74. Conclusion: To validate the content of the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis Impaired Comfort for patients in palliative care in oncology is a way of supporting the clinical nursing practice in their own theoretical knowledge.