Construction and evaluation of interactive educational technology for family members acting as caregivers on caring for dependent people

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the process of constructing and evaluating an interactive educational technology for family members acting as caregivers who care for dependent people to ensure continuity of care after hospital discharge. This is an applied research, descriptive exploratory, developed between 2012 and 2013. The educational technology construction based on the ADDIE model, which in turn based on the Contextualized Instructional Design. Six experts evaluated the technology with a questionnaire with closed and open questions. The educational technology contains information, guidelines, photos, videos and audio, structured by three themes related to feeding by tube, positioning and transferring. The experts positively evaluated the educational technology, approved its content and made suggestions for its improvement. Educational technology was adequate to provide reliable information, adapted to the needs of the family members acting as caregivers, and could be a facilitating platform to assist them in the self-care context of the dependent people.