VALIDATION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE CATEGORIZATION OF USERS ACCORDING TO DEPENDENCE AND RISK OF CARE, ADAPTED FOR NEONATOLOGY SERVICES OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS OF CHILE

Abstract

The categorization of users according to dependence and risk of care through the CUDYR instrument, responds to the Chilean health reform, which focuses on the management of healthcare institutions, which should improve their efficiency, effectiveness, quality and safety, providing a tool for the management of care in closed care. The objective of this study was to adapt and validate the CUDYR-NEO instrument based on the CUDYR for Neonatology services of public hospitals in Chile. The non-probabilistic sample corresponded to the cases available by intention according to the inclusion criteria of expert judgment and consisted of 152 patients from a public hospital in Chile, informed consent was applied, using the ethical principles proposed by Ezequiel Emanuel. The current instrument was adapted by experts in the area, covering the philosophy of neonatal care, and validation by content by expert counterparts in the area, obtaining a score between 97% and 100% on the relevance of the proposed items. The CUDYR-NEO instrument was applied during December 2017. The final instrument was made up of two dimensions with a reliability estimated by ordinal alpha of 0.89 and an extracted variance of approx. 0.56 (about 0.5) which determines a high measurement quality of the instrument. In addition, the instrument meets both the convergent validity as well as the discriminant validity. The saturation of the items in the latent factors presented factorial loads over the 0,478 with a maximum of 0.99 considered as high. It is concluded that the CUDYR-NEO instrument has sufficient psychometric properties and high reliability and validity, constituting an adequate tool for the categorization of users according to risk-dependency and care management in Neonatology services.