Tecnologia educacional sobre Neuropatias para pessoas que vivem com Diabetes Mellitus: Estudo de validação.

Introduction: The provision of care to patients with Diabetes and Neuropathy must be based on health education. Educational technologies are facilitating means in this context, being essential, after their construction, the evaluation stage, for improvement and analysis of the educational product.Objective: To evaluate, through the judgment of specialists and the target audience, an educational technology in booklet format on Neuropathies for people with Diabetes Mellitus. Methodology: Educational technology evaluation study, with interface in methodological development, with a quantitative approach, divided into two stages: Content and Appearance Evaluation, carried out in 2024, and Semantic Evaluation, carried out in 2025. Fifteen health specialists, nine experts in the didactic-illustrative field, and eighteen patients with diabetic neuropathies from a specialty center participated. For data collection, questionnaires were used, interpreted through the Content Index, Summative Score of the adapted Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) instrument, and Semantic Index. Results: The overall Content Index was 0.91, and the Appearance evaluation obtained a score higher than 10 points in SAM. The booklet was improved following the specialists’ suggestions for version II. The overall Semantic Index was 0.98. The suggestions from the target audience served to improve the booklet for the final version. Final Considerations: The booklet was evaluated to be used as an educational technology for people with Diabetes Mellitus.