Construção e validação de manual educativo para o uso no processo de aprendizado acadêmico em fisioterapia após artroplastia total do joelho

Abstract

Introduction: The growth of the elderly population in Brazil has increased the cases of degenerative diseases such as osteoarthrosis, and in more severe cases the treatment is performed through knee total arthroplasty surgery. Physical therapy is extremely important for the return of functional activities of these patients. Objective: this research is the construction and validation of an orientation manual applied to total knee arthroplasty for the students of the Physiotherapy course. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study whose sample consisted of 139 students from the Physiotherapy course of the University of Amazônia (UNAMA) and 11 judges. In the first moment studies were carried out that subsidized the construction of the manual; in the second, for validation of the content of the manual, the judges received a questionnaire with 7 closed questions referring to the primordial items of the manual with scores according to the modified Likert scale, which proposes five levels of answers and in the third one, the manual to students through an expository class for analysis performed through a questionnaire with closed questions containing 07 objective questions of multiple choice based on a modified Likert scale with five levels of answers. Results: For the descriptive representation of the data, tables were elaborated, using the Microsoft Word® Software, representing the absolute and relative frequencies of the categorical variables. The preparation of the manual was based on the illustrative and textual description of the protocol of physiotherapeutic intervention in patients submitted to total knee arthroplasty including in the hospital and outpatient phases. Discussion: The opinions of the judges regarding the items contained in the manual on physiotherapeutic interventions and the student satisfaction index were compatible with data from other studies that used the same methodological tool. Conclusion: in light of the results and the discussion, it is concluded that the manual developed as didactic resource can be considered valid by the specialists, as well as by the students, making possible the contribution in the teaching-learning process during the academic training of these future health professionals.