Adaptation and validation of a surgical safety checklist in the cesarean delivery

Abstract

Objective: adapt and validate a surgical safety instrument in the cesarean delivery, based on an integrative review of the literature, and on the World Health Organization protocol and surgical safety checklist. Method: methodological study, with triangulation of data, involving a total of 43 participants, being eight judges for the validation of content and apparent of the instrument, using the Delphi technique, and for the semantic validation, another 35 professionals from the surgical team of a public hospital in the Federal District, Brazil. The reliability coefficient was applied to the instrument. Results: the instrument achieved general content validity index of 0.9 and inter-rater agreement of 1. The total coefficient of Cronbach’s alpha was 0.86, and the mean score of the dimensions obtained high scores. Conclusion: the instrument presented validity in the three criteria studied and reliability to be applied in future studies evaluating the surgical safety in cesarean deliveries.