Jogo pedagógico como instrumento de avaliação de uma ação coletiva de saúde bucal: a construção e a validação de um software

Abstract

This study aimed at the creation and validation of an educational software to evaluate the effectiveness of activities to promote oral health, as a means able to enter or modify habits of health care. For this, a team composed of dentists, designers, educator and information technology professionals built the software called: "Seeking answers in oral health." This is proposed in a simple, fast and attractive evaluate the knowledge acquired after conducting a collective oral health. The study involved 35 children aged 6 and 7 years, students of the Colégio de Aplicação João XXII, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. A health promotion activity was initially performed. Then it was applied, the target audience, the program to promote the validation. The methods were used to validate the reliability indices, Cronbach's alpha and Percentage of Agreement. The results showed that the calculation of the percentage of agreement was high ranging from 97.1% to 100%. Thus, this software has a good level of reliability and can be considered validated.