Clinical validation of nursing diagnosis fatigue (00093) in women in the immediate hospital postpartum period

OBJECTIVE: To perform clinical validation of nursing diagnosis fatigue (00093) in women in the immediate postpartum hospital. METHOD: This is a methodological and clinical validation study of the diagnostic accuracy of nursing diagnosis fatigue (00093) components in women in the immediate postpartum hospital period. Data were collected with women in the immediate postpartum hospital. Sensitivity and specificity accuracy measures, positive and negative predictive values of the aforementioned nursing diagnosis were investigated. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 153 women in the immediate postpartum period hospitalized in the rooming-in ward, with a mean age of 27 years, whose defining characteristic with statistical significance was tiredness. CONCLUSION: The defining characteristics of tiredness and pain and related factor sleep deprivation presented high prevalence and high values of fatigue (00093) accuracy measures, being validated. Thus, it is believed that this study will contribute to clinical practice nurses in the correct identification of postpartum hospital fatigue, a frequent phenomenon in this population that causes much damage throughout the puerperium period. Additionally, it will corroborate the immediate conduct aiming at good outcome.