Construction and validation of educational material for families of the Kangaroo Program

Abstract

The Kangaroo Mother Method is a strategy designed to provide care to premature, low weight at birth and high risk children. To achieve optimal results it is of vital importance that nursing staff have a series of skills such as: effective and efficient communication with the family and/or caregivers, as well as knowledge about the method. In accordance with the above is expected that the family has a fundamental participation during this process. Objective: Prepare a booklet-type educational material aimed at user families the Kangaroo Family Program. Method: literature review with product generation. Results: Selection of bibliography according to inclusion criteria for development of content of the primer. Validation is performed by means of the Likert scale and the Delphi method at a panel of experts and families of the kangaroo program. There are different participants from the area of ​​the health with experience in pediatrics, kangaroo plan, pedagogy and infant feeding, among others; for the degree of agreement between experts was assessed using the V-Aiken index and its 95% confidence interval (CI 95%). Interviews are conducted with families located in different age ranges, socioeconomic status and education level; It is evident that in all categories the score was between 4: adequate and 5: very appropriate. Conclusions: it is of great importance that when an educational material is made, before its implementation, validation must be carried out by a panel of experts and the population group to which it is being aimed at.