Fall prevention is an essential element in ensuring safe care for paediatric patients. The first step in building a risk reduction programme is the adoption of an assessment tool to identify those most at risk at an early stage. From October 2014 to date, a study has been conducted for the linguistic-cultural validation of the Humpty Dumpty Fall Scale (HDFS) in the Italian context, through a multicentre survey with the help of the Clinical Risk Management Group of the Region of Tuscany. The objective of this study is the validation of the new Humpty Dumpty Fall Scale defined as Speedy Meyer-Fall Scale (SMFS) by assessing the comprehension and validity of the scale and items via Content Validity Index (SCVI and ICVI) estimation of inter-item reliability (Crombach's alpha), inter-rater reliability (Cohen's K), sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and ROC curve.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
332
AUSL Toscana Sud Est
Arezzo, Italy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMeyer Children's Hospital IRCCS
Florence, Italy
RECRUITINGFondazione Gabriele monasterio - Ospedale Pediatrico Apuano Massa
Massa, Italy
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGvalidation of the SMFS t
validation of the SMFS through the assessment of the comprehensibility of the SMFS, the validity of the SMFS through Content Validity Index at item (ICVI) and scale (SCVI) level, and the reliability of the SMFS through inter-item reliability (Cronbach's alpha) and Inter-rater Reliability (Cohen's K)
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
identification of patients high risk of falls
estimation of the sensitivity, specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV) and ROC curve in clinical practice and their comparison with the theoretical data of the scale in question in order to identify patients at high risk of falls in a paediatric hospital
Time frame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
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