Construction and validation of the Handbook of Good Practices for Physical Education Professionals, resistance training for patellofemoral pain

Abstract

The present study aimed to build and validate the Handbook of Good Practices for Physical Education Professionals, resistance training for patellofemoral pain. The tool is an instructional material, whose target audience is teachers who care for students/patients with patellofemoral pain. This was a methodological development study of educational technology, of a theoretical-practical manual type, with knowledge about resistance training. The construction of the tool was based on Bloom's Taxonomy and its content validation was carried out by a group of six expert expert judges. The agreement between evaluators on the validation items was analyzed using the content validity index (CVI), the content validity ratio (CVR) and the concordance coefficient (Gwet's AC1). Eleven of the 12 items evaluated presented maximum values (IVC = 100% and CVR = 1.00), being considered adequate. The Handbook concordance coefficient was 0.97, a value considered excellent, which represented a consensus among the expert judges, validating the tool. The statistical level achieved in this study demonstrated that the Handbook is adequate to meet the objective of supporting physical education professionals in conducting resistance training as the measure of choice for the non-pharmacological treatment of patellofemoral pain in the chronic phase.