“Iniciação sexual: Já estou pronto/a para iniciar minha vida sexual?” - validação de um recurso didático para a promoção da saúde sexual e reprodutiva

Abstract

This is a study that focused on the content of a comic book about sexual initiation directed at adolescents, seeking their validation as a didactic resource. In this work, we present the results of the research in which the comic book entitled "Sexual Initiation: Am I Ready to Start My Sex Life?" Was considered valid by judges who are specialists in the subject. The process of teaching and health promotion for adolescents' learning about sexual initiation. Educational technologies are used as auxiliary means in the formation of a critical conscience for a healthy life. As nurses working in the area of sexual and reproductive health, there was a need to develop and use didactic material that would arouse the interest, criticality and autonomy of adolescents, as well as to enable a meaningful, fun and entertaining learning in the comics. The objective was to analyze the history as a didactic resource directed to the promotion of sexual and reproductive health of adolescents; Validate the comic in terms of content and appearance encompassing clarity, relevance and representativeness. The theoretical framework of this study was based on the theory of social interaction of Lev Seminovitch Vygotsky. The validation process was carried out through a committee composed of twelve judges, distributed among teachers of basic education, researchers and professionals of the basic health network from June to September of 2016. The data were extracted by Through the application of individual questionnaires in the form of Likert scale, with items distributed in two blocks of analysis: clarity and representativeness. The data were described and for analysis the Content Validity Index was used to measure the proportion of participants who agree on panels or comic book items. In the validation of appearance and content, the judges made several suggestions, however, there was a tendency for the judges to opt for the answers in agreement. Most of the answers in the clarity block were clear (52) and very clear (53), reaching the level of agreement of 87.51% and in the representative block was indicated as representative (66) and extremely representative (42), reaching A level of agreement of 81.82%, demonstrating that the pedagogical resource was considered valid. This didactic resource is an opportunity for all to discuss sexual initiation in adolescence in a playful and interactive way, through the autonomy of adolescents, making them multipliers of knowledge.