Validation Study of the "CORNELL ASSESSMENT PEDIATRIC DELIRIUM" (CAPD)" Scale in Italian Language

University of Padua

Status: Completed

Conditions: Delirium

Treatments: Behavioral: CAPD scale

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04589767

4792/AO/19

Details and patient eligibility

About

70 children (based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria described above) admitted in PICU will be daily assessed by two nurses (inter-evaluator agreement) using the Italian version of CAPD scale administered twice at a distance of 2 minutes (intra-evaluator agreement).

Full description

The psychometric validation study will take place in the PICU of the Hospital of Padua. CAPD translation and cultural adaptation was developed within the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit of the Federico II Polyclinic.

In this study we aim to perform the psychometric validation. 70 children (based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria described above) admitted in PICU will be daily assessed by two nurses (inter-evaluator agreement) using the Italian version of CAPD scale administered twice at a distance of 2 minutes (intra-evaluator agreement).

The score will be recorded in a data collection card, all the cards will be collected and then analyzed.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• PICU admission
• Comfort Behavioral Score > 11

Exclusion criteria

• use of neuromuscular blocking agents at the moment of CAPD evaluation
• Comfort Behavioral Score < 11

Trial design

70 participants in 1 patient group

children admitted in PICU

Description:

children enrolled will be evaluated by two nurses using CAPD Italian version. One nurse will repeat the evaluation two minutes later.

Treatment:

Behavioral: CAPD scale