CONSTRUCTION AND VALIDATION OF AN EDUCATIONAL COLLECTION FOR PROMOTING SEXUAL HEALTH AMONG ADOLESCENTS AIMED AT PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS.
Keywords: Health Education; Sexuality; Adolescents; Primary Health Care.
Considering that it is during adolescence that individuals begin their search for their own sexual expression, as well as free access to information on the internet, which is often inadequate or distorted, it is necessary to prioritize Sexual Health Education (SHE) for adolescents, based on coeducational approaches and considering the capacity for discernment of this group. We can identify, in the literature, schools as the main setting where SHE actions take place today. Health professionals are pointed out as the main sources of evidence-based information in this movement. There are still gaps regarding the inclusion of LGBTQIA+ adolescents and a strong biological, heteronormative and sexist bias in the topics addressed during these actions. Thus, this work aims to construct and validate a collection of activities based on active methodologies, to be applied by health professionals in Primary Health Care, in health education actions for adolescents. To construct the collection, a narrative review was carried out on the Google Scholar platform. The Google Scholar platform was used to search for experience reports because it contains a large number of publications of the experience report type, publications that are not easily found in large journals. The collection included experience reports that described sexual health education activities with adolescents, based on active methodologies. The reports were selected based on the assessment of their replicability in Primary Health Care. The topics covered in the activities that were included in the collection include Puberty, Gender-Based Violence, Inclusive Sexual Education, Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Use, as well as Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections. After the booklet was created, we proceeded to its validation, which will occur in two modalities: content validation, which will be carried out by PHC professionals, through the Content Validation Index (IVC); and; appearance validation, by other professionals, such as designers, educators, and journalists, through an adaptation of the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) questionnaire.