Adaptação e validação da lista de verificação do parto seguro da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) para o contexto brasileiro

Abstract

Maternal and infant mortality is still a serious public health problem in Brazil, despite the broad access to institutionalized deliveries. The World Health Organization has developed the Safe Childbirth Checklist, a potentially useful technology to improve the quality of care during labor and to promote better health outcomes. The objective of this work is culturally adapt and validate the Checklist for the WHO Safe Childbirth for Brazilian hospitals, for the simple translation collides with consolidated national clinical practice. After translation into Portuguese of Brazil, there were three stages of adaptation and validation: 1 nominal group panel of experts, three obstetricians and six medical nurses (three obstetricians and three pediatricians), held in person (first two polls ) and completed the distance (final vote); 2 Consensus Conference in two University Hospitals, in extended meetings for all professionals who would use the list; and 3 structured questionnaire for health professionals (n = 40) after 30-day pilot study using the list. The criteria for validation were the face validity and list content, suitability for national protocols, terminology and viability in the local context. In the first stage, all 29 items were approved after 3 rounds and some national adaptations (eg. Rapid test for HIV instead of CD4). In the second stage, there was an increase of 24 items and changes in initial items. In the third stage, was the exclusion of nonviable 3 items, 2 items were joint and 1 item has been added due to their clinical importance in the Brazilian context. The validation process enabled the provision of a Checklist for Safe Childbirth 49 potentially useful items for the Brazilian context, with evidence of validity and feasibility of the national context which must be confirmed in future studies focused on the effectiveness or validity of criterion.