Curso online acessível sobre saúde mamária para mulheres cegas e videntes: validação e avaliação

Abstract

People with disabilities represent an important percentage of the world's population and face difficulties in all spheres of society. Nurses must understand the shortcomings and educate in accessible and inclusive medium in diverse thematic. Being the breast cancer public health problem, and online education emerging education model, the present study aimed to validate the result of the use of assistive technology Online Breast Health Course in the learning of blind and sighted women; Measure learning of blind and sighted women after participating in the Online Mammary Health Course through the application of pre and post-test; Evaluate Online Breast Health Course as inclusive, accessible online educational material. Almost experimental study, developed online, with the support of the Health Communication Laboratory of the Nursing Department of the Federal University of Ceará. Data collection took place in two stages, being first construction and evaluation of the pre and post-test instruments, when 7 specialists participated. Then, the course was offered when 47 women participated, among them 17 blind and 28 seers. The pre-test instrument was used before accessing the content, and in the end, post-test and course evaluation were made as an inclusive and accessible educational material through the use of QUATA. Data were organized into tables and analyzed with Mcnemar, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, Kruskall-Wallis and Fisher's exact tests, all with a significance level of 5%. Ethical aspects were respected. Knowledge evaluation instruments were composed of fifteen questions, equally divided into low, medium and high complexity levels; QUATA evaluated Objectives, Access, Clarity, Structure and Presentation, Relevance and Effectiveness, Interactivity. (56.5%), higher education (56.5%), income from 3 to 6 minimum wages (39.1%), 50-69 years (28.3%), Of Ceará (71.7%), Catholic (65.2%). Regarding learning, it was observed that in questions 3 and 5 of low complexity and in 14 and 15 of high complexity there was a significant difference (p <0.001), with an increase in the average of hits. High complexity questions 11 and 12 presented a significant decrease (p <0.001) in this mean. Blind and sighted women had significant improvement in learning (p <0.001) and there was no difference between the groups. Women without a partner, income up to 2 minimum wages, Catholic, from 50 to 68 years old, from other states and complete higher education had significant improvement in learning (p <0.001). Regarding course evaluation, attributes Objective, Clarity and, Relevance and Efficacy received adequate evaluation above 80%. It was considered organized (91.5%), but unattractive (70.2%). It was evaluated with difficulty of access by the slow loading of the pages which also caused low evaluation in the Interactivity. Women with disabilities assessed the structure and presentation better (p <0.001). (P <0.001), in Objectives, by women of another religion (p <0.001), Structure and Presentation by women aged 40-49 years (p <0.001), and Interactivity by women Of other states (p <0.001). Online Breast Health Course is inclusive online educational material, capable of educating blind and sighted women alike. It is a valid and propitious strategy to promote inclusive learning of blind and sighted women about breast health.