Elaboration and validation of a booklet on diabetes for Community Health Workers

Abstract

<jats:p>ABSTRACT Objectives: to develop and validate a diabetes booklet for Community Health Workers. Methods: methodological study developed in seven steps: Bibliographic review; Development of the booklet; Calculation of readability and comprehensibility scores; Validation of the booklet by the committee of judges; Discussion between experts; Validation of the booklet by the target audience; and Final discussion between experts. Validation was performed by 10 judges via e-Surv and on a face-to-face test with 5 Community Health Workers, considering the minimum Content Validity Coefficient of 0.80. Results: the booklet had a mean Content Validity Coefficient of 0.97 in the validation by the committee of judges, and the images had 96.67% approval. In the face-to-face test, the Community Health Workers considered the material clear and appropriate to the function. Conclusions: the booklet was developed and validated on its content and relevance, and it can be used by Community Health Workers for diabetes education.</jats:p>

Construção e validação de recursos audiovisuais para motivar pessoas com hipertensão ao uso de anti-hipertensivos

“…The results corroborate other investigations that used content validation in the construction of care technologies to promote health in chronic diseases. 26,27 As demonstrated in a previous study, 18 the initial choice of the medical professional to illustrate the belief, both in the video and the messages, occurred because only this member of the health care team was cited as a positive reference for drug treatment. However, following and agreeing with the suggestion of most specialists, who were nurses and contributed massively to the follow-up of this clientele at different levels of health care, this image was modified.…”

Educational technology to promote father involvement in childbirth and birth

“…This conferred a differential to the material and was essential to the construction process. Similar studies in Brazil have conducted surveys with the target audience about their knowledge on the subject, in the preparation phase of an educational manual (23)(24)(25) .…”

“…The comprehension of the texts and coherence of the illustrations also obtained satisfactory CVI scores, indicating that the information used is appropriate. This evaluation methodology is observed in several publications on the construction and validation of educational technologies (18)(19)(20)(23)(24) . The overall CVI of the educational material showed a high level of agreement, corroborating other Brazilian methodological studies on the development of educational technologies that identified similar findings (18)(19)(20)(25)(26)(27) .…”

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