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

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro,Stefãne Amorim
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Moreira,Alexandra Dias, Reis,Janice Sepúlveda, Soares,Aleida Nazareth, Géa-Horta,Tatiane
• 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=S0034-71672020000400179
• topic: Validation Studies; Teaching Materials; Community Health Workers; Diabetes Mellitus; Health Promotion

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.