Back to Search
Start Over
The neonatal assessment manual score (NAME) for improving the clinical management of infants: a perspective validity study
- Source :
- Italian Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 47, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021), Italian Journal of Pediatrics
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2021.
-
Abstract
- Background and objectives The Neonatal Assessment Manual scorE (NAME) was developed to assist in the clinical management of infants in the neonatal ward by assessing their body’s compliance and homogeneity. The present study begins its validation process. Methods An expert panel of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) professionals investigated the NAME face and content validity. Content validity was assessed through the content validity index (CVI). Construct validity was assessed using data collected from 50 newborns hospitalized in the NICU of “Vittore Buzzi” Children Hospital of Milan, Italy. Kendall’s τ and ordinal logistic regressions were used to evaluate the correlation between the NAME scores and infants’ gestational age, birth weight, post-menstrual age, weight at the time of assessment, and a complexity index related to organic complications. Results The CVIs for compliance, homogeneity, and the whole scale were respectively 1, 0.9, and 0.95. Construct validity analysis showed significant positive correlations between the NAME and infants’ weight and age, and a negative correlation between the NAME and the complexity index (τ = − 0.31 [95% IC: − 0.47, − 0.12], p = 0.016 and OR = 0.56 [95% IC: 0.32, 0.94], p = 0.034 for categorical NAME; τ = − 0.32 [95% IC: − 0.48, − 0.14], p = 0.005 for numerical NAME). Conclusions The NAME was well accepted by NICU professionals in this study and it demonstrates good construct validity in discriminating the infant’s general condition. Future studies are needed to test the NAME reliability and predictive capacity.
- Subjects :
- Male
NICU
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Neonatal intensive care unit
Birth weight
Logistic regression
03 medical and health sciences
Neonatal Screening
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
medicine
Content validity
Humans
Autonomic nervous system
Neonatology
Manual assessment
Anthropometry
business.industry
Research
Infant, Newborn
lcsh:RJ1-570
Gestational age
Construct validity
lcsh:Pediatrics
General Medicine
Haptic perception
Body volume
Italy
Touch
Scale (social sciences)
Female
business
Prematurity
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18247288
- Volume :
- 47
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Italian Journal of Pediatrics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....322dd2082a78985d2ab274c41b615c80