Aplicativo para dispositivos móveis sobre plantas medicinais: apoio aos profissionais de saúde

Abstract

The use of applications for mobile devices in the health area enables the optimization of professional work, this tool has the potential to be a resource to add knowledge. The research aimed to report the stages of development and application of a technology in medicinal plants for health professionals. This is a study of an applied, technological nature, with a qualitative approach, for the creation, validation and evaluation of a technological resource, the PlanteSaúde application. For the evaluation of the technology, the application was validated by specialists and the target audience. The research took place in three phases: the first phase, laboratory, the second of validation and the third, the evaluation of the applicability of the technology by health professionals who work in Primary Health Care in the cities of Pelotas and Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul Thus, the assessment of applicability by health professionals took place in three moments: the application journey, semi-structured interview and group interview. Data collection with health professionals took place from May to December 2022, after approval by the ethics and research committee. The application for devices presents 66 mobile medicinal plants recognized by the National Health Surveillance Agency, as being of traditional medicinal use in Brazil, in the form of plant drugs, which are not classified as medicines, being exempt from medical prescription. The application's content was evaluated by 11 judges, and most of the opinions considered relevant were accepted, and thus were sent to the professional computer engineer to make adjustments to the application. PlanteSaúde was evaluated, proving to be an adequate strategy for expanding the care and quality of life of health users, due to its systematic and rapid follow-up, as it is an easily accessible and illustrative tool with images of medicinal plants that facilitates identification. the same. Therefore, there is a need to encourage adherence to this tool in care for other health professionals and municipalities. The three objectives were achieved, the creation of the application for mobile devices, to assist health professionals in the guidance of medicinal plants based on the Resolution of the Collegiate Board No. 10, of 2010, published by the National Health Surveillance Agency; content validation was carried out with judges with expertise in medicinal plants and the applicability was also evaluated with health professionals who worked in Primary Health Care. Thus, it was identified that the application had good potential as a tool for use in teaching -learning in health, signaling that adherence and encouragement of the use of medicinal plants by professionals are increasing, as a result of the group interviews carried out in this research.