Objective:

To perform content validation on a risk scale that measures the risk of abuse in older adults.

Method:

Instrumental design, in which four expert judges with experience in the area were selected to carry out the content evaluation of the scale; the process was realized four times until full agreement was reached among the judges, according to the expert judgment method in the individual aggregate modality and finally, a pilot test was applied.

Results:

The expert judges reached a total agreement regarding the clarity, coherence, language, relevance of the items and sufficiency of the proposed categories after four revisions, allowing the configuration of the scale with three categories and 80 items. With the pilot application it was found that 66.7 % of the elders reported abuse, the most frequent type of abuse was the psychological one (29.2 %), there are few risk factors, although the presence of negative stereotypes about the old age on the part of the same older adults and economic limitations.

Conclusion:

With the validation of content the scale manages to assess the risk factors of abuse of the elderly with clarity in the writing, internal coherence in each item, without induction to the answers, a language appropriate to the population, leaving only the relevant items and allowing these to be sufficient for the evaluation of the three proposed dimensions; the application of the pilot test allowed corroborating this validity.

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