AMAR - Child Development Monitoring, follow up and Tracking Application - A study of development and validity content.
Child Development, telemedicine, child
Introduction: In Brazil, monitoring growth and development is one of the strategies recommended by the Ministry of Health to ensure child development in an appropriate way for all Brazilian children, however, often this process is not carried out effectively. In some countries, strategies of technological innovations are being an alternative to favor the care of these children collaboratively between the family and health professionals. Objective: Develop a sofware web and mobile version and test its content validity to track growth and child development. Methodology: This is an exploratory study, using mixed methods with quantitative and qualitative approach to software development based on the methodological process called participatory interaction design composed of 4 stages. Identification of the user's needs; solution design design; Construction of a functional prototype and evaluation. For evaluation, the content validity test was performed by health professionals who monitor child growth and development and family members. By completing a form with quantitative and qualitative questions after analyzing the screens of the software in the mobile version and in the web version. The project was submitted and approved by the Ethics and Research Committee of the Alberto Santos Dumont Institute of Teaching and Research under CAAE 48108021000000129, according to resolution 466/12.Results: In the 1st stage, the needs identified in the literature were identified and discussed in a team composed of design, system developers and physiotherapists. Then, amar- application monitoring, evaluation and screening for development began to be developed through meetings to refine the system, until reaching the model for evaluation of users. The system was developed through a front end with a responsive design and the back end written in JavaScript being responsible for the communication of the two applications: Mobile and Web. For data storage and management, PostgreSQL was used in version 12.5. An Application Programming Interface (API) was also created using the Django Rest Framework version 3.12.4 to enable communication between all parts of the system. When evaluated by 10 health professionals and 10 families, the content validity obtained a Content Validity Index greater than 80% in all questions. Conclusion: AMAR proved to be well-reliability for its objective, which is to favor follow-up among families and health professionals in the monitoring of child growth and development. The next step is to implement it so that we can understand whether this collaborative practice will favor tracking development changes.