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- Title
Accuracy of the defining characteristics in nursing diagnoses of Hyperthermia in newborns.
- Authors
Menezes de Aquino, Wislla Ketlly; de Oliveira Lopes, Marcos Venícios; Moraes Fróes, Nathaly Bianka; Martins da Silva, Viviane; Paixão de Menezes, Angélica; de Aquino Peres Almeida, Aline; Alves Sobreira, Bianca
- Abstract
Objective: to clinically validate the accuracy of the defining characteristics in nursing diagnoses of Hyperthermia in newborns. Method: a cross-sectional study conducted in units of medium and high risk in a maternity from the city of Fortaleza-CE. A total of 216 newborns were evaluated to identify the defining characteristics of diagnoses. A latent class model with random effects was used to measure sensitivity and specificity. Results: Hyperthermia was present in 5.6% of the sample. The characteristics lack of suction maintenance (31.3%); skin warm to touch (25.5%); lethargy (24.2%); and tachypnea (21.4%) were the most frequent. Stupor presented higher sensitivity (99.9%) and specificity (100%) while vasodilation characteristics, irritability and lethargy only showed significant values for specificity (92.7%, 91.6% and 74.3%, respectively). Conclusion: four characteristics of high specificity contribute to Hyperthemia. However, stupor is the only one with significant sensitivity to identify it at its early-stage.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CONFIDENCE intervals; EXPERIMENTAL design; FEVER; FEVER in children; RESEARCH methodology; NURSING diagnosis; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; CROSS-sectional method; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 2, p357
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0037