title: Content validation of the nursing diagnosis acute pain in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The main purpose of the study was to validate the defining characteristics of the nursing diagnosis acute pain in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a descriptive study. The validation process involved was based on Fehring's diagnostic content validity model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four defining characteristics were classified as major by Slovak nurses and eight defining characteristics were classified as major by Czech nurses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Validation of the nursing diagnosis acute pain in the Czech and Slovak sociocultural context has shown that nurses prioritize characteristics that are behavioral in nature as well as patients' verbal reports of pain.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Verbal reports of pain and behavioral indicators are important for arriving at the nursing diagnosis acute pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Renáta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zeleníková
authors.forename: Katarína
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Žiaková
authors.forename: Juraj
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Čáp
authors.forename: Darja
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jarošová
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D018153:Czech Republic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing; D018154:Slovakia
keywords: Acute pain; defining characteristic; nursing diagnosis; validation