Learning through play: semantic validation of educational technology on tuberculosis for school children

Abstract

Objective

to semantically validate tuberculosis educational technology for school children.

Method

a methodological study, conducted with 51 students aged 10 to 12 years old, from a public school in Belém, Pará. For data collection, the children were presented with the educational technology, a word search, with definition, transmission, signs and symptoms of tuberculosis and, after its application, an individual interview was carried out, with open and closed questions about attributes associated with the general impression, content and form. To describe the agreement of the answers to the interview, the content validity index was used, with a cutoff point equal to 0.80. To describe the numerical variables, we used the software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, 22.0, and for the text corpus, we used the software IRaMuTeQ 0.7, alpha 2.

Results

the content validity indexes presented results higher than 90%. The description of the statements generated two word clouds, referring to the understanding about the disease and the informative capacity of the technology.

Conclusion and implications for practice

the technology was considered easy to use, relevant and with appropriate content, therefore, valid for children to understand the disease, enabling them to act as multipliers of information to their social network.

Keywords:
Health Education; Tuberculosis; Child; Educational Technology; Validation Studies