DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A DIGITAL VULNERABILITY IDENTIFICATION INSTRUMENT (Q-IVD) FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

The number of children and adolescents who make use of digital technologies at an increasingly early age has increased significantly. And considering that the inappropriate and abusive use of technologies can be harmful in several dimensions of human life, the systematization of the stages of development and validation of an instrument that aims to measure indicators of digital vulnerability among students of the 3rd year of the High school. The construction of the Digital Vulnerability Identification Questionnaire (Q-IVD) is based on the literature, and the type of content validation was chosen to evaluate, through the Delphi method, the judgment of experts about the contents present in the instrument. A panel of experts composed of 26 judges with training and experience in the fields of education and health participated in this validation process, and later, a group of students who contributed to the semantic analysis of the issues. The final version of the Q-IVD contains 24 questions distributed in four categories, and during the validation process, it was evidenced that this instrument has validated applicability also for different audiences, through improvement and cross-cultural adaptations, to investigate different correlations together with other research instruments. and statistical analysis.