Prevenção de violência e golpes contra a pessoa idosa: produção e validação de cartilha educativa

Abstract

The world is going through an expressive increase of the elderly population, and its not different in Brazil. The seniors are dominating de demographic pyramid of the country. With the aging, there is increase of the cases of violence against seniors. Unfortunately, this subject is underrated. Besides, most of the elders do not recognize they are being victims of one of the different types of violence. Or even know their aggressor, they can be from within their own family or community circle. Aside from that, there is seniors’ protection politics, and they are compulsory notification cases if you can either confirm it or you only suspect it. Therefore, it is important to educate them about it. The study aimed to develop and validate a booklet to guide the elderly population about the different types of violence that go through this situation, presenting them the information in a playful and easy way to understand it, based on previous bibliographic research. The research is of an applied nature, with an analytical descriptive study and transversal type. For the first part, was created an informative booklet. The second part we did the application and evaluation of the booklet by the technical jury. The jury and target audience evaluated the topics “objectives, content, relevance, illustrations, language and layout and design” of the booklet created. According to the score made by the Linkert scale, the booklet had its validation confirmed, the jury showed acceptance of 87% and the target audience 95%. The booklet was approved, therefore, it demonstrates its importance for the prevention of violence and coups against the elderly, in addition to being a useful, easily accessible and good quality tool for disseminating health education. Therefore, considered validated.