Validation of Nursing Outcome Indicators in Patients with Postsurgical Delirium.

Objective: To validate the content of the indicators proposed from the Nursing Outcome Classification in a care plan for delirium management in older adults.

Methods: Content validity study, conducted under the expert judgment technique. The procedure was developed in five moments: organization of indicators that respond to the nursing outcome classification for delirium management, support with literature of the indicators that responds to the result, selection of experts, establishment of agreements, and discussion.

Validation and reliability of the Care Vulnerability Index: A study by interrater agreement and test-retest method.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the validity and reliability of the Care Vulnerability Index (CVI) as a tool to estimate the need and competence of care.

Design: A cross-sectional survey including a longitudinal component.

Methods: Content validity ratio (CVR) was calculated by interrater agreement of a group of 11 experts in two rounds.

The Design and validation of a Nursing Plan for Elderly Patients with Postoperative Delirium.

Delirium is the sudden alteration of the state of consciousness and perception, fluctuating over hours or days. It predominates in older adults and is associated with the aging process. The incidence of delirium increases between 10% and 15% in surgical interventions.

The Dimensions of Care: Big Data Analysis in Health Information Systems.

The axioms of care postulate energy and time as underlying entities that allow us to study the dimensions of the person as care: the sorge. Logic allows to formalize the deductive study of sorge knowledge in order to determine what are the dimensions of care. These dimensions will be the guiding framework in the analysis of big data contained in health information systems.

Cognitive Stimulation of Elderly Residents in Social Protection Centers in Cartagena, 2014.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of a program of cognitive stimulation of the elderly residents in Social Protection Centers in Cartagena, 2014.

Methods: Quasi-experimental study with pre and post tests in control and experimental groups. A sample of 37 elderly residents in Social Protection Centers participated: 23 in the experimental group and 14 in the control group.

[Quality of life in the senior population of Cartagena, Colombia].

Objective: To determine factors associated with the quality of life of the elderly in Cartagena in 2015.

Method: Cross-sectional study on a population of 107 604 senior adults, with a sample of 660 people. Two-stage sampling was carried out using the Pfeiffer test, socio-demographic survey, Yesavage depression scale, self-perceived health questionnaire, Barthel Lawton and Brody scale, Multicultural Quality of Life Index, and Duke Questionnaire.

[Validity and Reliability of the Attitudes Toward Sexuality in the Elderly Questionnaire in Cartagena, Colombia].

Background: There are many stereotypes and prejudices about the sexual lives of the elderly. However, there are no validated and reliable tools for measuring these in the Latin-American context.

Objective: To determine the internal consistency, dimensionality, differential item functioning (DIF) by gender and stability of the Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Elderly Questionnaire (ASEQ) in adults over 60 years-old in Cartagena, Colombia.

[Factors associated with senior citizens using primary healthcare services in Cartagena, Colombia].

Objective: Establishing the factors associated with using healthcare services for the aged in Cartagena, Colombia.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. A 656 sample-size was estimated for a population of 66,795 senior citizens; stratified sampling was used.

[The quality of life for people suffering from complex wounds in Cartagena, Colombia].

Objective: Estimating the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of people suffering complex wounds who were receiving care in an extramural health service provider institution in Cartagena during May-June 2010.

Materials And Methods: This was a quantitative, descriptive study where the population/sample consisted of 93 adults receiving care in an extramural health service provider institution's complex wounds program in the city of Cartagena. A questionnaire regarding socio-demographic characteristics, an observational guide on the characteristics of injuries and the Multicultural Quality of Life Index were used.