Board game on sexually transmitted infections for imprisoned women.

INTRODUCTION: The board games is an educational technology that represents an appealing, active and playful pedagogical strategy and may be capable of motivating imprisoned women to learn about Sexually Transmitted Infections. METHODS: A methodological study to develop and evaluate a board game, following these stages: 1. Integrative literature review to identify educational technologies on Sexually Transmitted Infections used by imprisoned women; 2. Development of the board game; and 3. Content validation performed by 23 evaluators and semantic evaluation carried out with 10 imprisoned women who were enrolled in a school located within a female prison unit in the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. RESULTS: The board game consisted of the following: 01 board; 01 instructions manual; 05 pawns; 52 cards; and 01 dice. A global Content Validity Index of 0.966 was reached in the content validation process performed by health and education professionals. In the validation of the board game content regarding appearance, performed by designers/developers, most of the items obtained a Content Validity Coefficient below 0.85, which resulted in the need for adjustments and a new validation round with these professionals, in which Content Validity Coefficient = 0.917 was obtained. In the semantic evaluation, all the women stated that they improved their knowledge, increased their motivation to attend the class and would like to play the board game again. CONCLUSIONS: The "Previna" board game has been validated and can be considered an important pedagogical tool in the construction of knowledge in relation to the prevention, treatment and control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the female prison context. The quality of this educational technology is directly related to its development based on an appropriate theoretical and methodological framework, in addition to satisfactory feedback from the target audience. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Not applicable.

Effect of a board game on imprisoned women's knowledge about sexually transmitted infections: a quasi-experimental study.

INTRODUCTION: Board games can be used as a playful educational practice in the teaching and learning process, as they constitute an educational technology that can be a source of health knowledge and an aid in decision-making. The objective of this research was to assess the effect of a board game on imprisoned women's knowledge about STIs. METHODS: A quasi-experimental study was conducted in 2022 with 64 imprisoned women who were students at a school located in a prison unit from the city of Recife, state of Pernambuco, Brazil. A 32-item instrument was used to assess knowledge about sexually transmitted infections before, immediately after the intervention and at 15 days. The intervention consisted in applying the Previna board game in a classroom. All the analyses were performed in the Stata software, version 16.0, with a 5% significance level. RESULTS: The knowledge mean in the pre-test was 23.62 (± 3.23) points, whereas it rose to 27.93 (± 2,28) in the immediate post-test, dropping to 27.34 (± 2.37) (p < 0.001) in post-test 2, which was performed 15 days after the intervention. There was a statistically significant difference in the means obtained between the pre-test and the immediate post-test (p < 0.001), with a difference of 4.241 points, as well as between the pre-test and post-test 2 (p < 0.001), a difference of 3.846 spots. CONCLUSIONS: The Previna board game significantly increased its players' knowledge about STIs, and such increase in knowledge remained significant during the follow-up period.

Intervenciones educativas para la prevención del VIH/sida en mujeres encarceladas / Educational Interventions for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Incarcerated Women

Introducción: La infección por el VIH es un grave problema de salud pública, en especial cuando se trata de mujeres encarceladas. En este escenario, las intervenciones educativas sobre el VIH son una estrategia importante para incentivar la prevención de esta infección. Objetivo: Analizar la evidencia científica sobre el uso de intervenciones educativas dirigidas a la prevención del VIH/sida en mujeres encarceladas. Métodos: Se realizó una revisión integradora de la literatura realizada mediante la búsqueda de artículos en las bases de datos Scopus, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, Literatura Latinoamericana en Ciencias de la Salud y Web, sin restricción de idioma ni de tiempo. La pregunta de investigación se elaboró ​​a partir de la estrategia PICo Población (mujeres encarceladas); Interés (intervenciones educativas sobre el VIH/sida); Contexto (prevención). Conclusiones: En los 8 artículos analizados, se encontraron intervenciones educativas con enfoques en temas relacionados con la prevención del VIH, por medio de sesiones grupales, capacitación de habilidades, dramatizaciones, videos educativos y materiales impresos(AU)

Introduction: HIV infection is a serious public health concern, especially when it involves incarcerated women. In this scenario, HIV educational interventions are an important strategy to encourage the prevention of this infection. Objective: To analyze the scientific evidence on the use of educational interventions aimed at HIV/AIDS prevention in incarcerated women. Methods: An integrative literature review was carried out by searching articles in the databases of Scopus, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, Latin American Literature in Health Sciences and Web, without language or period restrictions. The research question was elaborated from the PICo strategy: population (incarcerated women), interest (HIV/AIDS educational interventions), and context (prevention). Conclusions: In the 8 articles analyzed, educational interventions were found to have approaches on topics related to HIV prevention through group sessions, skills training, dramatizations, educational videos, and printed materials(AU)