Tecnologia educacional sobre hanseníase para professores do Ensino Fundamental

Leprosy is an ancient disease still present in some countries in Asia and South America. In 2018, 208,641 new cases of leprosy were detected in the world, and of these 79.6% (166,011) were concentrated in three countries: India, Brazil and Indonesia (WHO, 2020). In the Americas, Brazil ranks first with 98.8% (28,660) of cases, and second in the world ranking in absolute number of cases (WHO, 2019). Health education should be seen as a transformative practice that needs to permeate all disease control actions and for this, digital information and communication technologies widely used in people's daily lives are important tools for the dissemination of information. The study aimed to describe the process of construction and validation of Infohansen educational technology for elementary school teachers. Methodological research developed in five moments: spatialization of leprosy cases, realization of Culture Circles, construction of educational technology, technology validation and data analysis. The geoprocessing technique used the Kernel density estimator to identify areas of concentration of cases in the urban area of Vitoria de Santo Antao-PE. School teachers in this area participated in Culture Circles, as a teaching approach to leprosy. Based on the interweaving of popular and scientific knowledge, teachers chose and built digital technology for the dissemination of information about the disease. The technology was evaluated by 12 judges, 7 health specialists for content validation and 5 education representatives representing the target population for semantic or face validation. In the technology analysis, the Concordance Validity Index (I-CVI) and the Scale-Level Content Validity Index (S-CVI) were calculated, to verify the agreement, the binomial test was performed. In the face assessment of the 39 items, two did not reach the proportion of relevance of the judges of the target audience, and were reworked. The results showed that the judges considered the relevance of Infohansen digital technology, as an instrument in the expansion of knowledge about Hansen's disease, and in the formation of multipliers in a dynamic and interactive process. This research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee Involving Human Beings-UFPE under CAEE no 81064017.2.0000.5208.