Desenvolvimento de um curso virtual sobre vigilância ativa para controladores de infecção relacionada à assistência à saúde

Abstract

Healthcare-Associated Infections are recognized as complex and multifactorial in order to encompass all assistance offered to patients in different healthcare settings. They present themselves as a problem of global magnitude and public health, raising growing concern among health professionals, care managers and formulators of public health policies. Infection controllers are health professionals who work in the health care-related infection control sector and focus on maximum reduction in the incidence and severity of infections using active surveillance as the main tool for their work. The objective was to validate a virtual course on active surveillance for the role of healthcare-related infection controllers. This is a methodological study, subdivided into two stages: construction of the virtual course and content validation. To this end, the digital educational material development model was used, which recommends the following phases: I- Analysis and Planning, II- Modeling, III- Implementation, IVEvaluation and V- Distribution. The study obtained a favorable opinion from the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte under number 6.871.232 and CAAE 78937524.3.0000.5537. To provide the theoretical support necessary to enable the analysis and planning phase and, consequently, the course construction stage, a Scoping Review was carried out. This strategy resulted in a total of 92 scientific productions, which encouraged the construction of four modules, organized into 12 classes, totaling a workload of 20 hours, hosted on the Google ClassRoom platform. Regarding content validation, 10 judges were selected and evaluated the course using the Health Content Validation Instrument, which evaluated each of the three domains based on a Likert scale, namely: 0= disagree, 1= I partially agree and 2 = I totally agree. It was observed that 80% (n=4) of the items in the "Purposes, Goals and Purposes" domain were classified as excellent in content validation; in the "Structure/Presentation" domain, 90% (n=9) of the items were classified as excellent, and the "Relevance" domain presented 100% (n=3) of the items with evaluation. It was also found that all three domains presented excellent validation coefficients. The kappa test displays similar results to the CVC. Therefore, it is concluded that the virtual HAI surveillance course was constructed and is considered valid in relation to its content, with innovative potential and allows infection controllers to have access to scientific content that equips their practice.