Author(s): Barros, Mariana Boulitreau Siqueira Campos ; Rosário, Rafaela ; Martins, Silvana Peixoto ; Galvão, Dulce Maria Pereira Garcia ; da Silva Tenório, Silas Jordão ; do Nascimento Farias, Ariany Cristine ; de Goes, Paulo Sávio Angeiras ; Monteiro, Estela Maria Leite Meirelles
Date: 2023
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/87089
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Adolescent health; Empowerment; Health education; Methods; Validation studies
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.
