Author(s)

Monaliza Ribeiro Mariano¹, Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca^1*, Paulo César de Almeida², Wilson Correia de Abreu³

¹Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
²Department of Nursing, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.
³Department of Nursing, Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Objective: To compare the learning of visually impaired individuals after the use of the educational game “Drugs: playing it clean”. Method: Quasi-experimental, comparative, before-after study. Results: The participants’ mean age in Brazil was lower than in Portugal; a significant difference in information acquisition was found between the pre and post-test for the low-complexity (Brazil p = 0.018 and Portugal p = 0.002), without a difference in the number of correct answers for the medium/high-complexity questions between the two countries (p = 0.655 and p = 0.0792); when comparing the number of correct answers before and after the game intervention, an increase was found in Brazil and Portugal, respectively (21.8% - 61.1%; 11.2% - 38.9%); a significant difference was found in the number of correct answers between the low and medium/high-complexity questions (p = 0.030). Conclusion: The educational game permits information access and can be used as a teaching-learning strategy.

Learning, Visually Impaired Person, Games and Toys, Psychoactive Drugs, Nursing

Mariano, M. , Pagliuca, L. , Almeida, P. and Abreu, W. (2014) Visually Impaired Individuals in Brazil and Portugal and Learning about Drugs through a Board Game. Open Journal of Nursing, 4, 677-682. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2014.410072.