Desenvolvimento e validação de tecnologia digital para educação em saúde do paciente sobre prevenção de quedas no hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Patient falls are events of high impact in hospital institutions. Therefore, nursingcan use technological resources to support care in the prevention of falls. Amongthe digital educational technologies for health education, applications are alternatives that are well accepted by patients. Thus, emphasiz the importance of a study in the field of nursing on the development and validation of a mobile application for the prevention of falls in hospitals. Objective: Develop and validate the content of a mobile application for patient health education on fall prevention in hospitals. Method: Technological development study, carried out between April and December 2021, comprising five stages: analysis; design; development; implementation and evaluation. In the analysis phase, information was compiled to composse the educational technology; in the design stage, the planning, prototype sketch and schedule for executing the application were carried out. In development, the production of technology took place. In the implementation stage, tests were Applied by the teaminvolved in the research. Finally, in the evaluation phase, the validation of the mobile application took placeby nine health and information technology specialists. To assess the proportion of agree ment between the judges, the Content Validity Index (CVI) was used, adopting a percentagem greater than or equal to 90%, to consider the item validand the binomial test. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee, according to protocol 5,082,265/2021. Results: The application “Quedas Não” was developed in Flutter, with the Dart development language, based on PHP, with a MySQL data base. It took eight months for development, from the definition of the contente to the final version for implementation by the researcher. The technology was validated by nine clinical experts and three technical experts, and showed a global CVI of 0.91 and 0.93, respectively, as well as p>0.05 in both assessments, which demonstrated the contente validity of the technology created. Conclusion: “Quedas Não” is a valid technology, in terms of content, system relevance, environment, ergonomics, interface, functionality, usabilityand system efficiency. Therefore, it is a valid tool that can be indicated for health education of adult patients during hospitalization.