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Objective: Develop and validate a surgical wound assessment tool for the Vietnamese nurses.
Material and methods: The SWAT was developed in three phases. Phase I: developed an initial SWAT based on international evidence-based guidelines and a comprehensive literature review, Vietnamese surgeons then evaluated the initial SWAT. Phase II: wound care nurse experts in Vietnam used an interactive Delphi process to refine and develop a final version of the SWAT. Phase III: the final version of the SWAT was then evaluated among 260 surgical patients to validate its construct validity and inter - ratter reliability.
Results: Phase I: The overall scale-content validity index was 0.98. The SWAT included 30 items. Phase II: six out of 30 items were excluded from the tool. Phase III: results of the Exploratory Factor Ananysis supported a threecomponent structure of the SWAT. The Intraclass Correlation Coefficient value of the overall scale was 0.81 (95% CI 0.68 - 0.89, p < 0.001), confirming excellent inter - rater reliability.
Conclusion: The SWAT is a reliable and valid tool for monitoring and evaluation the status of surgical wound healing and detecting early factors that may increase surgical wound complications.
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