Desenvolvimento de aplicativo móvel para o acompanhamento dos casos de tuberculose na Atenção Primária à Saúde

Abstract

The development of new tools, interventions and strategies that implement tuberculosis control has been encouraged worldwide. The general objective of this study was to develop and validate the content of a mobile application, for use on smartphones, to support the monitoring of tuberculosis cases in Primary Health Care. This is a methodological, multiphase study, with a quantitative and qualitative approach, systematized according to the methodological framework of User-Centered Design. The research phase had a descriptive-exploratory study, developed with nurses, doctors and people living with tuberculosis, distributed in health units in the city of Natal; and a scope review. In the design phase, the application content was elaborated and in the prototyping phase, the application prototype was developed. In the test phase, content validation was carried out using the Delphi technique. At this stage, the content validity coefficient greater than 0.8 and the percentage of agreement equal to or greater than 80% were used as parameters for validation. The study complied with the ethical foundations of Resolutions nº 466/2012 and 510/2016 and was aproved with nº 5.133.116. Based on the results of the descriptive-exploratory study and scope review, the application's content was structured into six sections in the version for health professionals: Personal data; Information about tuberculosis; Register user; Search patient; Contact; Query; and six for people living with tuberculosis: Tests; Personal data; Information about tuberculosis; Contact; Treatment; Alerts; For content and appearance validation, two Delphi rounds were carried out: the first had 19 judges and a total Content Validation Coefficient above 0.90, the second, with 9 judges and a total Content Validation Coefficient of 0. 99. It is concluded that the mobile application has validity to support the monitoring of tuberculosis cases in Primary Health Care.