Validação do instrumento de avaliação do conhecimento dos agentes comunitários de saúde sobre diabetes

Abstract

Objective: to elaborate, adapt and validate the Diabetes knowledge assessment of community healthcare workers – Diabetes-CHW – to assess CHW knowledge about diabetes mellitus. Methods: methodological study developed in three stages: a) instrument construction; b) content validation and cultural adequacy with family doctors and CHWs, followed by assessment of suggestions by a committee of experts; c) Psychometric validation of the instrument from its application in a sample of 102 CHWs, through the e-Surv webtool. Internal consistency and reproducibility analyses were performed in the R statistical programming environment. Results: the 29 multiple-choice question instrument showed satisfactory internal consistency, with 0.732 Cronbach's alpha (95% CI 0.652; 0.802) and intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.70 (95% CI 0.59–0.79) between the test and retest scores. Conclusion: the diabetes-CHW instrument was validated and considered adequate to assess community healthcare workers’ knowledge about DM.