Cartilha educativa para promoção da autoeficácia materna na prevenção da diarreia infantil : elaboração e validação

Abstract

The infantile diarrhea persists between the main causes of hospitalization and death among children under 5 years old. Therefore, it is necessary the elaboration of educational material that searches to increase the maternal self-efficacy in the infantile diarrhea prevention. An educational booklet was aimed to be created and validated by content judges, technical judges and the target audience to promote maternal self-efficacy in the prevention of infantile diarrhea. It`s about a methodological development study in which an educational booklet “You can prevent your child from diarrhea!” was elaborated using the Bandura’s self-efficacy theory as theoretical referential and using the scale of maternal self-efficacy for infantile diarrhea prevention and the movie “Infantile Diarrhea: you can prevent it” as research material. For the booklet’s validation, 30 content judges (15 with teaching experience and 15 with healthcare experience), 3 technical judges with graphic design experience and 31 mothers with kids under 5 years old. The data was analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.0. The study was approved by the Ethics in Research Committee of the Federal University of Ceará. The booklet was draw up in eight topics (how to know if a child has diarrhea; how to take care of your child’s hygiene; how to take care of your hygiene; the cleaning of the environment helps to prevent diseases; let’s learn how to wash produce; how to take care of your child’s feeding; know the importance of vaccination for your child; how to take care of a child with diarrhea) following what the literature recommends for language, illustration and layout. The content and technical judges validated the first version of the booklet. Regarding the validation, the content judges have given a global Content Validity Index (CVI) of 0.88 for language clarity, 0.91 for practical relevance and 0.92 for theoretical relevance. The content judges classified the booklet as “superior”, with an average of 88,7%, in the evaluation taken with the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) tool. The technical validated the booklet with a global CVI of 0.96 for language clarity, 1.00 for practical relevance and 1.00 for theoretical relevance. The technical judges classified the material as “superior”, with an average of 90.1%, according to the SAM. The target audience validated the second version of the booklet. The booklet was considered clear for 86.9% of the mothers and relevant for 95.6%. The global CVI of the booklet was 0.99, showing an excellent level of agreement among the mothers. The mother evaluation according to comprehension, attractiveness, self-efficacy, cultural acceptance and persuasion also had satisfying results. The final version of the booklet was concluded with 32 pages from the suggestions of the content judges, technical judges and target audience. Its concluded that the educational booklet “You can prevent your child from diarrhea!” was considered valid according to content and appearance for the promotion of maternal self-efficacy in the prevention of infantile diarrhea.