Hora de cuidar: um aplicativo de autocuidado para pessoas com doenças crônicas não transmissíveis

Abstract

Many people who need to follow a medical treatment, especially for Non-Communicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs), must take a considerable number of medications daily. However, for various reasons such as routine or memory, they often fail to take them regularly, making the treatment ineffective and potentially leading to waste of medications when they expire, as the patient simply abandons the treatment. With the growing use of smartphones, particularly among the elderly, this work presents the development of the app "Hora de Cuidar"(HDC), a multi-platform application for mobile and web devices in the healthcare sector. The aim is to increase patient adherence to treatment, reduce dropout rates, and minimize medication waste through notifications with sound alarms and visual images of the medications as visual aids. A requirements survey will be conducted through interviews and field research questionnaires to define its development, utilizing modern and current development technologies such as Firestore, Flutter, Kotlin, and RoomDB. Finally, based on the results obtained in the field, a functional prototype will be designed and developed, followed by testing with potential users.