Innovation in prenatal guidance from the Healthy Gestation application: a methodological study

Abstract

Aim: to develop a mobile smartphone application as a tool for joining prenatal consultations. Method: it is an applied methodological study, in the form of technological production for validation of the application, elaborated between January and October 2017, in which the steps of analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation were followed. Initially, an integrative review was carried out on the subject and then, with the outline of an organization chart to guide the construction of the tool and obtaining the product. Expected Result: it is expected that this tool contributes to sustainable development by reducing neonatal and maternal deaths, mainly due to direct obstetric causes; thus, generating greater adherence to consultations on the part of pregnant women and better quality of prenatal care.