Efetividade de uma tecnologia educativa na promoção da saúde feminina

Abstract

Women’s health has been highlighted due its fragility in relation to the development of problems, especially those associated with reproductive and sexual health. Considering that information promotes improvements in living conditions, it is understood that there is a great need to promote ways to enhance information for the female population. Thus, this paper was intended to assess the effectiveness of an educational technology in promoting the health of the female population of Sinop – MT. This is an exploratory and descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, which was performed through a field survey, between October 2016 and June 2017. The data were collected through two structured questionnaires with closed questions, applied in two steps. The first one was applied to check the prior knowledge of women. Subsequently, the educational technology titled "Women’s Health Booklet” was presented for reading, addressing the following topics: preventive examination, human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical and breast cancer, mammography, clinical examination and self-examination of the breasts. Later, a second questionnaire was delivered to assess the contribution of this educational technology to the researched public. The data were collected and inserted into an Excel spreadsheet, where we typed them twice with the aim to avoid errors. After that, the descriptive statistical analysis was performed. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee on Research involving Human Beings under opinion number 1,878,752. The data were assessed by comparing the changes occurred among the questionnaires, and then displayed in tables. The results showed that 38% of the women were aged between 31 and 41 years; 29.55% had completed high school; 90.91% of the women said they were straight; and 59.09% were married. Concerning the changes in the responses of the questionnaires after the reading of the booklet, 43.19% of the women showed changes greater than 50% in their responses, resulting in a significant change. The others had a moderate change, but even so they obtained new concepts, since they changed their responses in more than 20% of the questions. In view of the changes that occurred among the responses of the questionnaires, it can be concluded that the educational technology has contributed to the acquisition of new information. It is because this technology aroused among the researched women a greater understanding about the addressed topics.