Abstract

CATALAN, Valentín Gavidia; ORTEGA, Marta Talavera  and  LUCIA, Oscar Raúl Lozano. Skills assessment in health care: the development and validation of a questionnaire, early findings. Ciência educ. [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.2, pp.277-296.  Epub June 19, 2019. ISSN 1980-850X.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-731320190020002.

The aim of this study is to develop and validate a self-administered written questionnaire. It will be a tool to find out the health-care skills that students will have reached at the end of their compulsory education stage. Its significance lies in the usefulness of knowing the Health Education learning achieved during that time and, therefore, as a reference point for subsequent teaching interventions. The questionnaire has been designed to include 24 significant problems for the students' health. It has been subjected to expert opinion, and has been evaluated with a readability test, interviews with the target population, and has been piloted with students of 1st and 4th years of secondary education (12 and 16 years old). The questionnaire results serve to identify gaps, and the questions in it encourage the use of proper teaching methodologies, which give students the opportunity to improve their health-care education training and to develop skills to enhance the quality of their lives at the personal, collective and environmental domains.

Keywords : Health education; Compulsory secondary education; Questionnaire; Health literacy.

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