Validation of the assistive technology for use the female condom for visually impaired women
International Journal of Development Research
Validation of the assistive technology for use the female condom for visually impaired women
Received 14th March, 2022; Received in revised form 06th April, 2022; Accepted 20th May, 2022; Published online 22nd June, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Luana Duarte Wanderley Cavalcante et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Objective: to validate the assistive technology Building to learn how to use the female condom for visually impaired women. Method: it is a methodological study. Pasquali was used as a methodological framework. Results: Participants were 100 women with visual impairment. The women's ages ranged from 18 to 75 years old. Most have blindness (55%), are not married (62%), attended high school (64%), have started sex life (81%) and have never used the female condom (89%). All items were in satisfactory agreement ≥72% (p<0.0001). Conclusion: we concluded that the assistive technology Building to learn how to use the female condom has been validated and is a valid strategy for the promotion and education on sexual health for visually impaired women.