Health vulnerability to vertical transmission of syphilis: validity of constitutive and operational definitions.

OBJECTIVE

to develop and analyze the validity evidence of the constitutive and operational definitions of health vulnerability for pregnant women in relation to vertical transmission of syphilis.

METHODS

a psychometric study, based on the Health Vulnerability Model, protocols from the Ministry of Health, updating the scoping review and conducting a concept analysis. Content validity evidence was analyzed by ten judges. The Content Validity Ratio was used to select operational definitions with a score equal to or greater than 0.8.

RESULTS

the dimensions were divided into nine subdimensions with 17 subconcepts, highlighting "health-disease situation", "knowledge", "attitude", "self-care", "lifestyle", "cultural differences", "social support", "situations of sexual, physical, verbal, and psychological violence", "discrimination", and "general gender inequalities".

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: the definitions obtained good validity evidence indices. Thirty operational definitions were developed for construct assessment.