Some psychometric properties of the brazilian CDC clear communication index

• Autor(a) principal: Angélica Maria Cupertino Lopes Marinho
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Cynthia Baur, Juliana Vaz de Melo Mambrini, Lucas Emanoel Oliveira Costa, Fernanda Moraes Ferreira, Ana Cristina Borges-Oliveira, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.3928/24748307-20220315-01; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/60930; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8794-5725
• topic: Educação em saúde; Material educativo; Educação em saúde; Comunicação em saúde

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Clear Communication Index (CCI) was cross-culturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese (BR). It was necessary to analyze the reliability and validity of the BR-CDC-CCI for its use in Brazil. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the instrument in its Brazilian version. Four specialists in health education used the BR-CDC-CCI to evaluate a population-level health edu-cation material. Primary health care professionals (n = 105) evaluated the same health material using the BR-CDC-CCI, and 30 professionals performed the retest 15 to 20 days after the first assessment. Cohen Kappa and area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses were developed. Inter-rater agreement ranged from moderate to almost perfect, with 90% of the items almost perfect. The percentage of agreement ranged from 8.6% to 98.1%. For the analyzed questions, the area on the ROC curve was 0.9412 (confidence interval [CI] 95%; [0.8259, 1.000]). The BR-CDC-CCI had sufficient validity and reliability for its use in the evalua-tion of educational/ informational materials in health in the Brazilian context. In view of the good results from this psychometric assessment, we anticipated the BR-CDC-CCI could contribute to improvements in Brazilian professionals’ skills in developing health communication materials, thereby improving the quality of educa-tion and, possibly health outcomes.