Construction and validation of self-care educational technology for caregivers

• Autor(a) principal: Soares,Ana Caroline
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Rêgo,Anderson da Silva, Rodrigues,Thamires Fernandes Cardoso da Silva, Cardoso,Luana Cristina Bellini, Rossaneis,Mariana Angela, Carreira,Lígia, Radovanovic,Cremilde Aparecida Trindade
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672021000400159
• topic: Educational Technology; Health Education; Validation Studies; Caregivers; Self-care

ABSTRACT Objectives: to build and validate educational self-care technology for informal caregivers. Methods: methodological study, anchored in the Delphi technique, carried out in a municipality in the state of Paraná, Brazil, between September 2018 and November 2019. It was developed in three stages: situational diagnosis; elaboration of educational technology; content and appearance validation by expert judges and informal caregivers, using the content validity index and coefficient of variation. Results: after the steps of the methodological process, an educational technology called “Taking Care of Those Who Care” was produced, as an information tool that deals with the self-care of informal caregivers, receiving a content validity index above 0.86 and a variation coefficient. below 20% on all items. Conclusions: the educational technology was built and evaluated with satisfactory rates by the specialists and target audience, showing a high correlation of agreement, characterizing it as adequate and informative to informal caregivers.