Youth empowerment through health education scale: validity study Escala de empoderamento juvenil pela educacao em saude: estudo de validacao Escala de empoderamiento juvenil por la educacion para la salud: estudio de validacion

Objective: To validate the Youth Empowerment Through Health Education Scale (EJEduS) content and appearance after an educational intervention.Methods: This is a methodological study carried out through EJEduS assessment by relevance, clarity and pertinence criteria by experts in the subject as well as by school adolescents and from a quilombola community. The analysis was performed using the Content Validity Coefficient and Content Validity Index, in addition to calculating the Gwet AC2 to verify inter-and intra-expert agreement.Results: Of the initial 50 items on the scale, 18 needed to be reformulated and 11 were excluded after consensus discussion with adolescents. The intra-expert agreement was almost perfect for the three criteria: relevance (Gwet: 0.894; 95%CI 0.825-0.919), clarity (Gwet: 0.848; 95%CI 0.816-0.879) and pertinence (Gwet: 0.896; 95%CI 0.870-0.923). In the intra-adolescent agreement analysis, an almost perfect agreement was observed (Gwet: 0.96; 95%CI 0.917-1), with acceptable agreement rates of Content Validity Coefficient and Content Validity Index, both with 0.91.Conclusion: The scale presented satisfactory Content Validity Indexes and appearance to measure youth empowerment through health education.