[Evaluation of the primary care in leprosy control: proposal of an instrument for users].

Objective: Developing an instrument to evaluate the performance of primary health care in the leprosy control actions, from the perspective of users and do the face and content validation.

Method: This is a methodological study carried out in four stages: development of instrument, face and content validation, pre-test, and analysis of test-retest reliability.

Results: The initial instrument submitted to the judgment of 15 experts was composed of 157 items. The face and content validation and pre-test of instrument were essential for the exclusion of items and adjustment of instrument to evaluate the object under study. In the analysis of test-retest reliability, the instrument proved to be reliable.

Conclusion: The instrument is considered adequate, but further studies are needed to test the psychometric properties.