title: [Instrument for evaluating the actions of leprosy control in Primary Care].
abstract: The study aimed to construct and validate an instrument to assess the leprosy actions control in primary care from the perspective of community health agents (CHA). This is a methodological study to validate instruments, based on the Classical Test Theory. The instrument was administered to 380 CHA of three municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais, in the period from July to December 2012. In the stage of face and content validity 17 items of the instrument were reduced. The factor analysis extracted eight factors that accounted for a percentage of 35.7% of the total variance. The principal components analysis allowed the elimination of eight items that showed no adaptation to the factors defined. The overall Cronbach alpha for the 57 items was 0.858. We conclude that the instrument is valid to evaluate the performance of primary care in leprosy control in the experience of ACS.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors: Fernanda Moura
authors: FM
authors: Lanza
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors: Nayara Figueiredo
authors: NF
authors: Vieira
authors: Departamento de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors: Mônica Maria Celestina
authors: MM
authors: de Oliveira
authors: Departamento de Enfermagem Materno-Infantil e Saúde Pública, Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.
authors: Francisco Carlos Félix
authors: FC
authors: Lana
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires