Construção de um website educativo sobre o acompanhamento dos marcos do desenvolvimento de crianças de 0 a 2 anos

Abstract

Monitoring child development is one of the attributions of professionals working in Primary Health Care. In this context, the responsibility of the Primary Care/Family Health Strategy (eAB/eFS) teams is directed towards promoting comprehensive child health surveillance, using the Child Handbook (CC), which is an instrument that seeks to monitor the health, growth and development of children. However, research shows that this instrument is not being fully used by professionals and parents, especially in the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing the absence of important data that should be recorded in this document, compromising the follow-up and monitoring of child development. In view of the above, the present research aimed to develop an educational website as a support resource for parents to monitor the main milestones of child development, considering the difficulty of carrying it out only using the Child Handbook, and may also contribute to the promotion of education in health. The purpose of creating the educational website was to enable parents to become active agents in the development process of their children. This research was based on a methodological study. Initially, in the planning phase, a situational diagnosis was carried out through the application of a questionnaire to parents in the UAPS to verify their knowledge in relation to developmental milestones. Then, to inspire the construction of the website, a scope review was carried out to identify the technologies created in the area of child development to accompany the developmental milestones in this phase of life. From then on, the design and implementation of the educational website were elaborated. Finally, with this research, it was verified that most parents of children from 0 to 2 years old at the Basic Health Unit Abner Cavalcante Brasil do not use the child's book due to lack of time. Although some caregivers know what the developmental milestones are, the parents do not follow them through the booklet. Subsequently, a website containing the main milestones of child development was created, helping parents to monitor them more effectively. It was also observed that the items most consulted by this population were: vaccination and monitoring of the development and growth of the child, in addition to breastfeeding and food in general. It should be noted that ethical issues involving human beings were respected and that the research was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Ceará (CEP/UFC) under opinion number 5,829,961.