Avaliação dos pés de pessoas com Diabetes Mellitus : o uso de um aplicativo móvel

Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus is a serious public health problem responsible for several chronic complications, among them the diabetic foot which consequences lead to amputations of the lower limbs that can result in death, reduced quality of life, and generate great socioeconomic impact . The nurse, as a professional in direct contact with the person with diabetes, is essential to the development of actions for risk prevention, clinical monitoring, disease control and complications. Objective: To describe the development and validation of a mobile application on the assessment and risk assessment of people´s feet with Diabetes Mellitus. Methodology: Methodological study carried out in four stages: 1) Definition of requirements and elaboration of the conceptual model; 2) Generation of alternatives of implementation and prototyping; 3) Tests; And 4) Implementation. Considering the specificity of knowledge in technologies required to achieve the desired product, all stages of the study were developed at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in a partnership between the Postgraduate Nursing Program (PPGENF), CuidarTech extension project (Laboratory of Nursing Technologies) and the Laboratory and Observatory of Ontologies Project (LOOP), linked to the Department of Industrial Design. The general method of application development was guided by the ABNT ISO / TR 16982: 2014 standard. In the first moment to elaborate the textual part of each screen , published guidelines in Europe and the Americas were used. Development and prototyping options were generated by using the Intel XDK software.