Key result
New educational booklet for cardiac surgery patients and caregivers achieves ~95% content validity index.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to develop and validate an educational booklet with care guidelines for patients undergoing cardiac surgery and their caregivers.
The developed educational booklet provides a validated tool for guiding patients undergoing cardiac surgery and their caregivers through all phases of surgery and home care.
Provides validated educational material for cardiac surgery patients and caregivers; hypothesis-generating pending outcome studies.
OBJECTIVES: to develop and validate a booklet with care guidelines for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. METHODS: methodological research developed in four stages: situational assessment -interviews with 24 patients undergoing cardiac surgery in the last half of 2019; theoretical procedure - literature analysis; experimental procedure - booklet development; and analytical procedure - content and appearance validity using the Delphi technique. Descriptive statistics, Content Validity Index measurement, and Cronbach's alpha Wilcoxon test were used for analysis. RESULTS: the booklet provides guidance for all phases of surgery and home care. The Content Validity Index was 94.6%. Modifications were made to the images and text were adapted, based on judges' suggestions. CONCLUSIONS: the booklet provides guidance for people undergoing cardiac surgery and their caregivers. Its content and appearance demonstrate evidence of validity for use by this target audience.
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Paz et al. (2025) studied Patients undergoing cardiac surgery (n=24). Educational booklet on myocardial revascularization was evaluated on Content Validity Index. An educational booklet for patients undergoing cardiac surgery and their caregivers was developed and validated, achieving a Content Validity Index of 94.6%.
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