Amar - Application For Monitoring, Tracking And Tracking Child
Neurodevelopment - Usability And Feasibility Study.
Amar – Application For Monitoring, Tracking And Tracking Child
Neurodevelopment - Usability And Feasibility Study.
Introduction: In Brazil, monitoring child growth and development is one of the
tools to ensure that all children are able to develop adequately. In this sense,
digital systems based on mobile applications can be an alternative to favor
collaborative care between families and health professionals. Objective: To
evaluate the usability and feasibility of collaborative software to monitor, track,
and trace child growth and neurodevelopment. Methodology: This is a
mixed-methods study, with a qualitative and quantitative approach, developed
in three phases: 1. Analysis of software development; 2. Testing of software usability; 3. Assessment of software feasibility (implementation) and focus
group. The software will be called AMAR - Application for monitoring,
tracking, and tracing child neurodevelopment. Results: AMAR was developed
and has two access versions: web version and mobile version. The usability
test conducted with health professionals and parents/caregivers of children up
to 2 years of corrected age indicates that AMAR presents good results related
to the items evaluated: interest, entertainment, customization, interactivity,
performance, ease of use, navigation, gestural design, layout, graphics, visual
appeal, quality of information, quantity of information, credibility of sources
used, awareness. Conclusion: AMAR presents possibilities to contribute to
improving collaborative care between family and health professionals and
that, once implemented in routine and health services, it facilitates
surveillance, access to updated health content and early screening of
changes in child neurodevelopment.