Health educational technology for incarcerated women in the light of health literacy

ABSTRACT Objective: to validate the content of educational videos for incarcerated women, in the light of health literacy. Method: methodological study with development of three videos for incarcerated women with themes chosen by them (Menstrual Cycle, Arterial Hypertension and Epilepsy), developed in four stages: construction of storyboards, validation by expert judges, construction of videos and validation by the public. The validation process was performed by seven judges with the Health Educational Content Validation Instrument, the Suitability Assessment of Materials and readability analysis. For approval, it was established that the agreement between judges should be higher than 80%, and the adequacy, according to the SAM, should be 40-100%. The incarcerated women evaluated the videos in August 2022, in a women's public prison in Ceará, using the Assistive Technology Assessment Instrument, considering the level of agreement of the positive responses above 70%. Results: the validation instrument result of the storyboards ranged from 0.92 to 1.0. In the Suitability Assessment, a percentage of 85.2% to 88.8% was reached, categorizing the materials as superior. As for readability, the values obtained (70.9 to 78.1) place the texts as easy or very easy to read. The evaluation by the target audience showed that the videos were adequate (97.8-100%). Conclusion: the three videos constructed were suitable for incarcerated women, with evidence of content validity and may be used in health education actions for this public.