Content validation of the nursing outcome Knowledge Heart Failure Management: Brazilian nurses' opinions.

Purpose: To estimate the content validity of the outcome Knowledge: Heart Failure Management (1835) of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC).

Methods: A methodological study conducted in Brazil with nurses with expertise in cardiovascular nursing and nursing process. The nurse experts evaluated the relevance of the indicators for the nursing outcome on a 5-point Likert scale.

Content validation of the symptom control outcome for heart failure patients in palliative care.

Objectives: To estimate the content validity of the Symptom Control nursing outcome for heart failure patients in palliative care and to analyze the influence of experts' experience in the judgment of the relevance of indicators.

Methods: A methodological study conducted in São Paulo in 2018, with an adaptation of Fehring's validation model. The relevance of the 11 outcome indicators was assessed by 19 experts by means of an electronically submitted survey.

Development and validation of an informative manual on venous thromboembolism for the lay population.

Objective: To develop an informative manual on venous thromboembolism prevention for the lay population and to estimate evidences of content and face validity.

Methods: A methodological study conducted in three stages. The first stage was the preparation of the manual, followed by content validation with cardiovascular specialists who judged clarity, theoretical relevance and practical pertinence on a 4-point Likert scale.

The Nurse-Patient Outcome Content Validation Method.

Purpose: To describe a new method of validating nursing outcomes and indicators that incorporates nurses' and patients' perspectives.

Methods: The Nurse-Patient Outcome Content Validation Method was developed in light of the experience of conducting the content validation of the nursing outcome Knowledge: Heart Failure Management (1835). It was developed based on Fehring's content validation model used for the validation of NANDA International nursing diagnoses.

Conceptual and operational definitions for the indicators of the nursing outcome classification: Symptom control in patients with heart failure in palliative care.

Objective: To validate conceptual and operational definitions of Symptom control (1608) indicators for patients with cardiac diseases in palliative care.

Method: Definitions were established through a literature review and were validated by consensus among expert nurses. Two rounds of the Delphi method and a meeting with experts were carried out in order to validate the definitions for the indicators and for the magnitude of response for each indicator.

Content validation study of nursing interventions intended to prevent cardiovascular events in diabetic patients.

Aims And Objectives: To validate nursing interventions from the Nursing Interventions Classification for preventing cardiovascular events in outpatients with diabetes.

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death among diabetic patients. Although nurses play an important role in preventing cardiovascular events in this population, their specific contribution is difficult to measure.

Non-pharmacological strategies to decrease anxiety in cardiac catheterization: integrative review.

Objective: to identify and review the literature on non-pharmacological strategies used for reducing anxiety in patients receiving cardiac catheterization.

Method: this study was an integrative literature review. The research was conducted using the databases LILACS, SciELO, Medline (through BVS and PubMed) and Scopus.

[Effectiveness of the brief intervention for the use of abusive alcohol in primary care: systematic review].

The research identified clinical studies on the brief interventions for the abusive use of alcohol and analyzed the effectiveness of professional advises proposed to alcohol consumers. The systematic bibliographical study was based on articles published during the period of 1997 to 2010. Brief intervention strategy is effective in the reduction on the frequency and amount of alcohol use, with better results when the strategy is applied to the primary attention situations.