Desenvolvimento e validação de aplicativo para dispositivos móveis para prevenção do uso de drogas entre adolescentes

Abstract

Introduction: Adolescence is a phase of human development in which transformations occur, and adolescents can become more vulnerable to certain risk situations such as involvement with drugs. Objective: To develop and validate an application for mobile devices in order to promote health and prevent drug use among adolescents. Method: This is an applied methodological research, of technological production, in which the Follow Life mobile application (follow life!) was developed and validated, to be used both in the educational and assistance spheres. The study participants were experts with knowledge and active in the theme of prevention of drug use, computer experts and the target audience formed by adolescents. For data collection, forms were used through the Google forms tool containing questions about the characteristics of the evaluators and aspects of the application related to functionality, usability, reliability and efficiency. Results: considering the evaluation of experts and the target audience on aspects of the software, all obtained an evaluation of Content Validity Index (CVI) equal to or higher than the cutoff point, going to maximum evaluations, and the product under study was validated. Conclusion: from the present study it was possible to carry out the development and validation of an application for mobile devices on the theme of prevention of drug use among adolescents.