Estudo de validação de conteúdo de um protocolo de avaliação em Musicoterapia aplicado a prematuros

Abstract

This research aims to carry out a content validation study of the "Music Therapy Evaluation Protocol for Premature Babies - PAMBP". This assessment instrument was developed in 2012 at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais by Prof. Dr. Cybelle M.V. Loureiro during research at Hospital Sofia Feldman in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This dissertation includes five studies that make up the research. These were published in annals of events and magazines of the area in the format of scientific article. The work methodology was based on Pasquali (2010) with regard to content validation, and, in this work, the aspects relevance, clarity, applicability and representativeness were analysed. This research was conducted with the support of the Fundação de Aparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG). The execution of the methodology was done by sending, by e-mail, the protocol, explanatory manual and a link redirecting to an electronic questionnaire on the google forms platform that collected answers from the judges about the content of PAMBP. This material was sent to two different groups of judges who evaluated the protocol from different perspectives. For the first group, entitled "expert judges", five Brazilian music therapists were invited who have or have had experience with elaboration and/or cultural adaptation of assessment protocols. For the second group, "professional judges", seven music therapists who have or have had specific professional experience in attending babies were invited. The questionnaires sent to each group contained differences according to their specialty. From the first group, only two judges responded, with five responses from the other group of judges. The calculation used for the data obtained was the Content Validity Index (CVI) with a minimum accepted value of 0.8. The total CVI result by the "professional judges" was 0.72. All participants agreed with the relevance of the protocol for the profession and future research in the area. Suggestions and comments were made for the improvement of the measuring instrument. Following the suggestions, the protocol suffered modifications as well as its explanatory manual. The modifications resulted in the division of the PAMBP into two protocols for different ages, the other being entitled "Music Therapy Evaluation Protocol for Premature Infants - PAMP". The new PAMP protocol was submitted to the judges. Only two judges from each group answered the questionnaire. Due to the insufficient number of answers, the parameters applicability and representativeness were not calculated in the CVI. There was agreement among the judges that the PAMP is relevant for the profession and that the new version is clearer to understand. The PAMP is considered to have great potential to help the music therapist in the care of premature babies and needs different tests to affirm its validity and reliability. Three articles were published during the research, as well as one article is in the submission process and another is about to be submitted. Another article was written and submitted, but was not added to the dissertation as it was a general research report.