Validation of nursing outcome dry eye Severity: a methodological study

Aim: validate the nursing result Dry eye severity in adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Method: this is a methodological study to be developed in three steps: (1) content analysis, in which experts will judge items related to the result of dry eye severity, and the analysis will be given by the index of content validity and agreement of inter-evaluators; (2) semantic analysis by nurses of a university hospital, considering items with a concordance value equal to or greater than 85%; (3) clinical validation will be performed through a cross-sectional study with 140 patients hospitalized in the ICU of a university hospital. The data from this study will be analyzed descriptively and the difference between evaluators will be verified through the Friedman test and intraclass correlation coefficient .