Aconchego: construção e validação de aplicativo para apoio à saúde mental

Abstract

The health crisis caused by Covid-19 has significantly affected the process mental health-illness. It brought about abrupt changes in everyone's reality, generating a state of extreme stress, anxiety, loneliness, and fear. In this scenario, the study aimed to Build and validate a mobile app for mental health support. This is a study methodological, technological development, for the construction and validation of Application for mental health support, developed in three stages: diagnosis situational analysis of scientific and technological production. To this end, a review was carried out narrative, aiming to gather knowledge in the area, as well as to identify applications that had similar dealings on the subject; The second stage took place through the development of the mobile application, in this phase, had the participation of university students and UVA professors who were part of GESAM,as well as Guest professors who had expertise in digital technology platforms to build the prototyping, for this purpose, the FIGMA software was used to present the structure of the computational design as well as the usage diagram; and finally, the validation by judges in the areas of Mental Health and Technology, being respectively, nine from the areas of Mental Health and three from Technology, in which It took place following ethical rigor and pre-established criteria, in the period of May 2017. 2021 to November 2022. The app was named "Warmth", the final version resulted in 105 screens and provides support channels, such as meditation, food, music, series, movies, lisamcast and electronic channels supporting and testing for validated nationally and internationally with the following questionnaires adapted: "Anxiety, depression and stress", "Mental suffering" and "Mental care". mental health." In the validation by judges, the application presented excellent rates of validation of Appearance, CVI = (1.0), CVI = Content (0.90) and Usability CVI = (0.91). It is concluded that the Aconchego application is available on the following platforms: of the Play Store, in addition to being validated as a support for monitoring in mental health, through content based on scientific knowledge, in a way that Fast, didactic, non-tiring and with language suitable for the community in general.