Introduction:

Oral hormonal contraceptives are among the contraceptive methods most used by wom- en, when used correctly, it is highly effective, but for proper use, it is essential that they have adequate knowledge and attitudes about them.

Objective:

To build and validate an inquiry to assess knowledge, attitudes and practice on or use of oral hormonal contraceptive.

Methods:

Methodological study, which took place in two stages: construction of the survey and validation by expert judges. The content validity analysis was performed using the Content Validity Index (CVI). The judges evaluated each item individ- ually, with respect to language clarity, practical relevance and theoretical relevance. The Research Ethics Committee approved the research.

Results:

In the integrative literature review, 34 publications were selected and their analysis allowed the identification of the three categories: knowledge, attitudes and practice regarding the use of oral hormonal contraceptives, which led to the construction of the survey with 34 questions. As for the CVI, most of the questions had a value greater than 0.8 (80.0%), which was used as a parameter. Regarding the total CVI per judge, 10 (83.3%) of them also had a value higher than 0.8. The total CVI of the survey was 0.86.

Conclusions:

The constructed survey proved to be a valid instrument for obtaining a situational diagnosis of the levels of knowledge, attitudes and practice of a given population that uses oral contraceptives.

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