Avaliação de um jogo de tabuleiro para prevenção de quedas em pessoas idosas

Abstract

The action of aging is an innate process of every human being. In Brazil, it is possible to notice a change in the age pyramid with the high life expectancy and increase in the population aging index. The fall, being the unintentional displacement of the body to a lower level than the initial position, is the main incident that affects this population, especially falls at home, revealing the importance of developing care focused on preventing this event. Thus, it is important to use technologies that promote the reduction of these diseases, such as educational games in health. For the effective action of the technology is important an evaluation by the target audience. The study aimed to evaluate a tabtabiro game for prevention of falls as the layout, motivational characteristics for learning and satisfaction with elderly people. This is a descriptive study on the evaluation of an educational technology, based on the theoretical model of nursing health promotion Nola Pender, the target audience were elderly with or

without a history of falls. The evaluation process included elderly women from a non- profit association in the city of fortaleza. The selection of the elderly was through

convenience sampling, the mini mental state examination (MMSE) was applied. After playing, the elderly answered an instrument about the layout and motivational characteristic for learning and satisfaction, as well as space for suggestions. In addition, subjective questions regarding the game and the process of playing were answered. The acquired data were compiled and analyzed using descriptive statistics, it was performed the concordance index (CI), the wilcoxon-mann-whitney test and similarity analysis. The study was approved by the research ethics committee of the Federal University of Ceara, under protocol number 3.921.131. The sample consisted of 31 elderly women (100%), with a mean age of 74.74 years. Regarding the evaluation process of gerontechnology indicated excellent CI, >90%, as well as statistical significance with p value > 0.05 in the Wilcoxon Test. Given the above, it can be concluded that the study achieved the proposed objectives. Gerontechnology served as a facilitator to promote health and prevent diseases related to this population.