title: Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases among visually impaired people: educational text validation.
abstract: to validate an educational text in the context of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) for visually impaired persons, making it accessible to this population.
  
  
  
  a validation study, in a virtual environment. Data collection occurred from May to September 2012 by emailing the subjects, and was composed by seven content experts about STDs. Analysis was based on the considerations of the experts about Objectives, Structure and Presentation, and Relevance.
  
  
  
  on the Objectives and Structure and Presentation blocks, 77 (84.6%) and 48 (85.7%) were fully adequate or appropriate, respectively. In the Relevance block, items 3.2 - Allows transfer and generalization of learning, and 3.5 - Portrays aspects needed to clarify the family, showed bad agreement indices of 0.42 and 0.57, respectively. The analysis was followed by reformulating the text according to the relevant suggestions.
  
  
  
  the text was validated regarding the content of sexually transmitted diseases. A total of 35 stanzas were removed and nine others included, following the recommendations of the experts.
authors.affiliation: PhD, RN, Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Giselly Oseni Barbosa
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: PhD, RN, Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luana Duarte Wanderley
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Cavalcante
authors.affiliation: PhD, Full Professor, Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lorita Marlena Freitag
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pagliuca
authors.affiliation: PhD, Professor, Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Paulo César de
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: PhD, Professor, Faculdade de Farmácia, Odontologia e Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Cristiana Brasil de Almeida
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Rebouças
mesh_terms: D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000076142:Virtual Reality; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities