Elaboração e desenvolvimento de aplicativo de educação alimentar e nutricional

Abstract

In the school environment, the nutritionist is responsible for contributing to the preservation, promotion and recovery of health through food and nutrition. Given the complexity and extent of this professional's assignments in the school environment and, in most cases, in a lower number than the one recommended per students, it is necessary to think of strategies to optimize some actions and avoid work overload. The use of mobile devices and communication technologies in health, is a rapidly expanding area of research and practice. Although there are many nutrition application proposals, which the major focus is on calorie and nutrient monitoring, the number of specific proposals to promote food and nutrition education in the school environment is still low. The goal of this work is to develop a mobile application that helps promote health through food and nutrition education. The target audience for the application is the high school/technical students and the youth and adult education program attended by the School Feeding Program of the Fluminense Federal Institute (IFF) campus Campos-Guarus, which was recruited by invitation during the presentation of the project in the institution. The project was submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of HUPE / UERJ. The project was developed based on the following flow: bibliographic data collection, specialized team recruitment, software development and registration. The proposed application is based on Quiz type tests focused on behaviors that relate to food and nutrition. Some strategies were included as a form of engagement and motivation, such as push notifications, social connectivity and gamification. The gamification strategies proposed for this work were the use of points system, emblems and ladders of progress. It is considered that an application with the intention of having a continuous action of food and nutritional education with characteristics of gamification that produce motivating and persuasive actions and that is related to the behaviors presented by the user is a possible tool to promote healthy eating to be used within the school environment