Development and validation of an interactive educational technology on spotted fever

Gabriela Rodrigues Bragagnollo,Tâmyssa Simões Dos Santos,Marcela Das Neves Guimarães,Estela Leite Meirelles Monteiro,Beatriz Rossetti Ferreira,Rosangela Andrade Aukar De Camargo

doi:10.1590/1518-8345.3678.3375

Abstract

Objective:to develop and validate an interactive educational technology on spotted fever, to offer an innovative teaching method.Method:a methodological study that covered the following stages: analysis and diagnosis; instructional planning, didactic design, review, and validation and production of technology.Results:the analysis and diagnosis were obtained from experiences in education and health activities for spotted fever. In the instructional planning, it was defined that the technology would be presented in the form of an Interactive Laboratory, with learning stations. The production of the Laboratory was carried out by a multidisciplinary team made up of a carpenter, an electrician, and a plastic artist, among others. The review and validation process was subdivided into two stages: appearance and content validation by professionals in the fields of biology, and education and semantic validation by students of the Nursing and Pedagogy courses. The results of the appearance and content validation showed a content validity index over 0.8 for the vast majority of the variables. In the semantic validation, the Laboratory was evaluated positively by the students.Conclusion:the trajectory followed for the construction of the Interactive Laboratory on spotted fever gave academic and scientific support to the product, offering an innovative educational resource with pedagogical potential that values significant learning.

Highlights

Spotted Fever (SF) is an emerging zoonosis with high lethality, which has presented itself as a new challenge for public health, since its incidence and prevalence have increased in a worrying way in the last 10 years in Brazil and worldwide
The analysis of the answers obtained showed that the population’s knowledge regarding SF was unsatisfactory, as only 35% of the population knew the disease, which could contribute to the risk of exposure since, in the last few years there has been an increase in the number of capybaras inhabiting the Campus, which greatly contributes to the infestation of vegetation by ticks
The theoretical framework which was selected contributed to the fact that creativity was the main element in the planning of the educational technologies (ETs), always under methodological rigor. This methodological study, which produced and validated an ET for health education on SF, was based on the needs of people who frequent an area at risk for the disease

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Introduction

Spotted Fever (SF) is an emerging zoonosis with high lethality, which has presented itself as a new challenge for public health, since its incidence and prevalence have increased in a worrying way in the last 10 years in Brazil and worldwide. This increase was possibly due to the disease having urbanized, and being no longer limited to rural and forest regions[1,2,3,4,5]. The occupation of areas with riparian forests by man brought him closer to the capybaras, which created a favorable environment for the infestation of man by the tick and transmission of the disease[2]

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