Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: TAYNAH NERI CORREIA CAMPOS

DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE LEARNING TO IMPROVE SLEEP IN PUERPERA

Sleep Deprivation; Health Education; Postpartum Period.

The self-learning of postpartum women, through access to content based on scientific evidence on ways to improve postpartum sleep, can be one of the strategies to prevent sleep deprivation and associated diseases. Currently, the benefits of self-learning through the use of mobile technologies (smartphones, tablets, notebooks, E-readers) to access educational content stand out. Thus, the objective of this study was to develop and make available the application for offline use called “Postpartum Sleep” for mobile devices. In this research, an application was developed for smartphones and tablets, using the Javascript language, related to sleep and strategies to improve it in the postpartum period. For the construction of the educational media, software development kits (SDK) for Android devices were used and the co-design methodology adapted from Millard was used. The qualitative analysis of the application prototype was carried out by a group of 05 experts of sleep. After this step, the adjusted prototype went on to be evaluated for usability by 36 postpartum women from the Hospital Universitário Ana Bezerra (HUAB). The application prototype ended up with 22 screens, distributed in an initial screen corresponding to the “Menu”, which consists of four main domains entitled (1) Importance of good quality sleep; (2) Postpartum sleep; (3) Adequate postpartum sleep; and (4) Puerperal woman: strategies to improve sleep, as well as other screens with descriptions about the specific theme. The evaluation of the application prototype based on the explored content obtained the complete approval of all sleep experts who participated in the study and allowed for adjustments to be made. In addition, it obtained usability approval from puerperal women with a System Usability Scale (SUS) score of 78.8 points, the application being considered good and acceptable. The profile of postpartum women who participated in the study highlights the prevalence of vaginal delivery, complete high school education and multiparous women. In this way, the “Postpartum Sleep” application has great potential as a tool for use in teaching-learning in matters related to aspects of sleep for puerperal women, assuring developers of its applicability and availability on digital platforms safely and reliably.