ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ENFERMAGEM DO PORTO NURSING COLLEGE

ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ENFERMAGEM DO PORTO NURSING COLLEGE OF PORTO Design and development of an interactive educational tool: contributions for family caregivers LANDEIRO LUMINI 1; MJ; MARTINS 2, T; PERES, H 3 RN, Mc. N, Ph. D-STUDENT 2 RN, Mc. N, PHD Nursing College Professors of Porto 1 RN, Mc. N, PHD S. Paul University´Professor 3

Context q National Health Plan 2011 -2016 perspectives the development of new technologies in the health area as a strategic axis to develop. q On the other hand, internet is considered a privileged way of communicating and obtaining useful information to interact with people who needs health care (ACS, 2009). q Citizens are increasingly requested to participate in in healthcare. 2

Study purpose q To develop and validate an interactive tool that provides information tailored to the needs of dependent patients’ family caregivers, promoting their autonomy. 3

Matherials and Methods q Information content for interactive educational tool came from different sources: q Semi-structured interviews q Expert group q Literature review 4

Matherials and Methods q Semi-structured interview with family caregivers in an urban and rural. q Categories overlapping to those described in the literature. Highlights the need to acquire knowledge and instrumental skills q Knowledge, competence, instrumental support 5

Matherials and Methods q Semi-structured interviews with nurses in a hospital setting and health center. q Identify family caregivers in the need to acquire knowledge, develop skills in instrumental and know the resources (materials and community). 6

Matherials and Methods q Assessment by a Expert group composed of specialists in the subject areas studied, consisting on: q. Nurses with experience in caring for dependent people; q. Experts in the field of health information technology; q. Teachers in the area of adult health and the elderly. 7

Matherials and Methods q Literature review about caregivers needs and education technology q The literature was identified by combining keywords: caregivers, selfcare, nursing. 8

Matherials and Methods q Interactive design tool according to the process of prototyping (Pressman, 2006). q The content will include the domains that emerged from the content analysis of the narratives of participants as well as the opinion of an expert group. q Support of the Institute of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP)- master`s degree student 9

Matherials and Methods q Building of this interactive tool have three areas: § Knowledge § Instrumental § Resources In order to provide information tailored to the needs of family caregivers to promote their mastery. 10

Matherials and Methods q. Contents were built focusing on basic needs of caregivers lives allowing to overcome difficulties in caring of dependent person q. The interactive educational tool was supported by video demonstrating procedures and audio documents q Videos were built and carried out taking into account the most frequent types of care developed by family caregivers , attempting to meet the needs of carers for dependent persons. q Some videos are performed by family caregivers who already provide care for a dependent person. 11

Development of interactive tool q The interactive tool was developed using Adobe Captivate 6 technology of Adobe Learning Suite, which is often used for creating this kind of interactive and educational applications, since it allows for easy reuse and introducing the feature in different Web pages. q Responsibility of School of Engineering – Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP)- master`s degree student 12

Development of interactive tool q Caregiver Site provides support through some mechanisms: q Home page q Information Areas q Gallery q Contacts q Educacional Links 13

Development of interactive tool 14

Development of interactive tool Learning object Care for dependent persons Multimedia resources Home page Pictures Areas Gallery Texts Contacts Audio Links (Silva, 2012) Videos Conceptual Map 15

q Home page q. Where it made a small presentation on the interactive tool. q Information Area q. The information area is divided into 3 subjects: feeding through a nasogastric tube, Positioning and Transferring the dependent person. Each issue have slide, vídeo and audio documents demonstrating procedures showing how to be performed by their users. 16

q Gallery is divided by three main information areas and each user click on the topic they want to see. q. Within each of these themes, images are subdivided into: q Devices - Here caregivers may find all the equipment they need to perform the procedures related to the information area chosen by them; q Image Procedures - in this area carers may find pictures relating to implementing procedures about the chosen subject. 17

q Contacts q Provides contacting the Nursing School of Porto (ESEP) since any question that may arise concerning procedures should be sent to researcher. q Still contain ISEP contacts and stakeholders in the present study. 18

q Educacional Links q Educacional information that may be useful for consultation with caregivers. q Links of reputable web sites that may be useful to caregivers. 19

Innovative element q We develop a trusted and user-friendly site. The major innovative element will be the platform interactivity’ conception meeting with users needs, helping them in their decision making and allowing family caregivers to decide which information they want to know and learn about. 20

Conclusion q We believe the development of this project will lead to a better knowledge on the contribution of educational technologies to the development of skills of family caregivers 21

ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ENFERMAGEM DO PORTO Thank you NURSING COLLEGE OF PORTO Maria José Lumini Landeiro lumini@esenf. pt Nursing School of Porto Portugal