Management in Family Health Strategy: validity process for assessing competences

Abstract

Objective

To validate an instrument on competence for managing Family Health Strategy (FHS) teams.

Methods

This is a descriptive and methodological research with a quantitative approach carried out between 2019 and 2020 with a focus on the nationwide validity of FHS management competence assessment instrument. The validity of competences was performed using the Delphi technique and internal consistency was examined using Cronbach’s alpha.

Results

Using the Delphi technique, performed with experts from areas related to the construct, 47 competences were validated, subdivided into three dimensions: knowledge, skills and attitudes. From then on, the 47 competences were broken down into 25 items of an assessment instrument. This instrument was applied with managers of Basic Health Units, in order to proceed with internal consistency assessment between items. The correlation matrix between the instrument items showed a strong correlation, which means that the instrument has high levels of reliability.

Conclusion

The validity process demonstrated internal consistency between items so that the instrument for assessing management competences proved to be suitable for application in research within the scope of FHS.

Primary Health Care; Health management; Professional competence; Health services administration