Educational technology to guide the organ donation process: a validation study

Abstract

This research aims to elaborate and validate a comic book that should be used to mediate the knowledge of the population about the process of organ and tissue donation. It is a validation study of an educational technology, for which 15 judges participated among health professionals and other areas. These judges answered three sets of questions, consisting of 22 questions, based on the Likert scale. For the analysis of the answers, we use a technique known as Delphi that is based on a methodology with the purpose of directing and comparing the judgments of experts in a given event. Data from this quantitative study were collected between January and October 2017 at the Center for Notification, Collection and Distribution of Organs and Tissues (CNCDO), installed in the Metropolitan Hospital of Emergency and Emergency (HMUE) in the north of Brazil. The judges judged the subjects related to the objectives, structure and organization and relevance of the educational technology, the results were favorable to the validation of the comics, since the percentages of agreement were superior to the required minimum of 80%, being between 93% and 100%. Therefore, the comic is a statistically valid instrument to be used among the population, according to the answers of the expert judges. In view of this, we have identified that this technology is valid to educate the population about the importance of donating organs and tissues, since comics are part of the daily life of many generations in Brazil and in the world, this fact generates interest of the population to read and to practice the information contained in this technology. The perspective, therefore, is that the technology makes it possible to provide efficient educational information, contributing to the construction of a new donation culture. In addition, we hope to contribute to this technology being used by many education and health professionals in order to improve donation rates in Brazil and worldwide.