Introduction:

There are numerous factors that influence the prescription of analgesics in Pediatrics, some of them are related to prescriptors and other are not directly related to them. In order to determine the factors of bigger impact in this problem, a questionnaire was developed and submitted later to a group of experts in order to be validated.

Objectives:

To determine the contents to include in the questionnaire and to evaluate its reliability.

Method:

The Delphi method was used, with a circulation in 3 rounds of a questionnaire remitted to a group of experts of Havana province from May to October of 2016.

Results:

23 experts participated in the study; in the two first rounds they determined the items to include and in the third round the questions. In this last round the consensus was of 89.3 %, so, it was decided to finish the circulation of the questionnaire. They condensed the 43 accepted questions into 19 with multiple clauses and the final questionnaire was obtained. For the factors not dependents of the prescriptor, Cronbach's alpha value was 0.179 and Spearman-Brown coefficient´s value was 0.231; while for the factors that depended on the prescriptor, the values were 0.506 and 0.717, respectively.

Conclusions:

The high level of consent obtained and the results of statistics test referred to factors depending on the prescriptor are indicators that the questions included in the questionnaire are valid markers to evaluate in a reliable way the handling of pain in Pediatric areas.

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