Desenvolvimento de um aplicativo móvel para avaliação funcional em pacientes pediátricos internados em Unidades de Terapia Intensiva

Abstract

The incorporation of information and communication technology in health is increasingly present in the daily lives of physiotherapists and health professionals. The emergence of the most varied health applications has been changing the way these professionals and students work in the area. The objective of this research is to develop a mobile application based on the Functional Status Scale to assess the functional capacity of critically ill patients hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units, as well as to assess their usability. This is a methodological research carried out in two stages with different methodologies: Initially, an application was developed to assess the functionality of children hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units (PICU). Subsequently, its usability was evaluated through a cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, of an experimental nature, using the SUS questionnaire as an instrument to assess the degree of usability. The created app uses Flutter technology and DART programming language, offering a simple and intuitive interface, with functional requirements that allow you to select, each screen, one of the six domains that make up the scale of functionality that served as the basis for the application. At the end the app shows the score obtained and interprets the result. In the second stage, twenty physiotherapists in the pediatric icu area used the application and evaluated it. Characteristics such as ease of learning, system efficiency, absence of inconsistencies, ease of memorization and user satisfaction were analyzed. Overall, the software obtained 95.63 points out of 100 possible, which indicates the best achievable score for usability through the SUS questionnaire. The app developed called FSS PED ASSIST proved to be a useful technology, easy to use, which can facilitate the functional evaluation of children hospitalized in PICU.