“Puberdade: o que acontece comigo?” - validação de tecnologia educativa em saúde sexual e reprodutiva

Abstract

The promotion of adolescents health, incorporating information on aspects of sexuality, poses a challenge for the creation of effective strategies for their participation. Comics are characterized as an important communicative and educational tool because they have written and illustrative information, they are easy to access and understand, they reach different social classes and ages because they cover stories of the most diverse subjects and learning takes place as they are. assimilated both new concepts and words. The creation of educational instruments determines the need for evaluative studies to ensure its relevance in a changing society, both in terms of social values and knowledge. We sought to validate the educational instrument, in the form of comic books, called Puberty: What happens to me? - “Sexuality and Education Series”, as a pedagogical tool for teenagers. The theoretical framework used was based on Lev Seminovitch Vygotsky's theory of social interaction. This is a methodological research, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, carried out with 45 students, from 10 to 18 years old, from a public school in Maceió-Alagoas. For data collection, eight focus groups were performed. Quantitative data were presented in the form of distributions of absolute and relative frequencies. Qualitative data were analyzed based on the content analysis technique. The results showed that 100% of the students showed good acceptability, considering the story very good or good, and with a very important theme (95.6%). As for the subjects discussed in the story, 48.9% of students reported a little difficulty in understanding some words, with no significant association between understanding the content and the variables sex and age. Regarding the adequacy of the story, 100% of the students said that they would not change anything in the material. Participants also made pertinent considerations regarding the comic book illustrations, which were readily adjusted. The comic strip was considered a valid instrument, with pedagogical potential to be worked on issues of sexual and reproductive health of adolescents; it constitutes an educational technological innovation of great contribution to promote autonomy in the learning of adolescents, being able to have its use shared inside and outside the classrooms, and together with other students, teachers, family members and health professionals.