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Educação em Saúde à criança/adolescente/família: construção e validação de uma escala:

2020; Volume: 1; Issue: 44 Linguagem: Inglês

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Anabela Fonseca Pereira, Carlos Manuel Torres Almeida, Vítor Manuel Costa Pereira Rodrigues, Joaquim José Jacinto Escola,

Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare

Health Education allows the development of behaviors capable of influencing the factors of a healthy life, namely themaintenance and improvement of the health status of the child/ adolescent/ family. Therefore, the perception of theimportance of this practice by those who experience it (nurses and parents/family) can contribute strongly to its efficacy.Thus, this study aimed to build and validate an instrument for evaluating Health Education, carried out by nurses focusedon children, adolescents, and/or family units. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study developed in two phases:elaboration of items and their associations with the scale’s dimensions based upon a bibliographical review, exploratoryinterviews with nurses and parents/family members, analysis by experts (nurses), and subsequent validation using anexploratory factor analysis. The psychometric qualities of the scale were assessed by a sample of 603 individuals (nursesand parents/family), and studies of reliability, validity and internal consistency were also carried out. The results of theexploratory factor analysis identified three factors: “partnership of care with the child/ adolescent/ family”; “Healthliteracy”; “Promotion of healthy environments and health behaviors” with 48 items. Analyses included high item-factorcorrelation (≥0.70); Cronbach's alpha=0.987; Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin=0.987; statistical significance within Bartlett's sphericitytest (p<0.001). The total explained variance was 65.7%. We can conclude that the Health Education assessment tool forthe child/ adolescent/ family contexts, in addition to meeting the validity requirements, presents positive results for its usein the Health Education assessments carried out for the child/ adolescent/ family members.