title: [Adaptation to the Portuguese language and validation of the Lunney Scoring Method for Rating Accuracy of Nursing Diagnoses].
abstract: The Lunney Scoring Method for Rating Accuracy of Nursing Diagnoses (LSM) is a semantic differential scale developed by Lunney to rate the accuracy of nursing diagnoses. The objective of this study was to adapt the LSM to the Portuguese language and to estimate its psychometric properties. The original scale was translated into Portuguese, back-translated into English, and the English versions were compared in order to adjust the Portuguese one (Escala de Acurácia de Diagnóstico de Enfermagem de Lunney--EADE). Four nurses were trained on the EADE and applied it on 159 diagnoses made for 26 patients of three primary studies, based on the records of patients' interviews and physical examinations. Cohen's Kappa estimates produced unacceptable inter-observer agreement rates, showing that the adapted tool has not acceptable reliability. Because of this result, validity tests were not conducted.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo (EEUSP). mtmllf@usp.br
authors.forename: Diná de Almeida Lopes Monteiro
authors.initials: Dde A
authors.lastname: da Cruz
authors.forename: Cassiana Mendes Bertoncello
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fontes
authors.forename: Cristiane Giffoni
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Braga
authors.forename: Márcia Paschoalina
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Volpato
authors.forename: Suely Lopes
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: de Azevedo
mesh_terms: D007802:Language; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results