Identification candidate for odour assessment and evaluate validity and reliability among wound care nurses.

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to identify a candidate for odour assessment and evaluate the validity and reliability among wound care nurses. METHOD: The first stage used the Delphi method to obtain an agreement of candidate odour assessment. The second stage used cross-sectional to evaluate the reliability of selected odour assessment among wound care nurses. RESULTS: The Delphi study recommends the usage of odour assessment scoring tools in clinical practice. The concurrent validity of odour assessment scoring tool based on bacterial burden (p=0.042) with (r=0.43). Interrater Reliability Test by Cronbach alpha confirmed robust correlation (r=0.91), of the odour assessment scoring tools between rater A and rater B. CONCLUSION: The odour assessment scoring tools are valid and reliable to be applied.