Virtual assistant for pregnant women: physical activity monitoring

• Grant number: 19/03984-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research in Public Policies
• Start date: September 01, 2019
• End date: February 28, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Agreement: CNPq - PPSUS
• Principal Investigator: Gleici da Silva Castro Perdoná
• Grantee: Gleici da Silva Castro Perdoná
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Dalmo Roberto Lopes Machado
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/07580-6 - Virtual assistant for pregnant women: monitoring physical activity, BP.TT

Abstract

The potential of the Internet of Things (IOT) for the management of individual health has already been used and can be exploited for other purposes, such as the monitoring of physical activity in pregnant women. Virtual Assistant for Pregnant Women is a proposal to integrate different knowledge to obtain better results on the Physical Activity of the pregnant woman. Literature shows that there is great difficulty in analyzing the quantification of the duration of daily physical activities in pregnant women.The objective of the project is the development of a virtual assistant, in Portuguese, with examples of health management functionalities, for monitoring Physical Activity measurement for pregnant women attended by SUS in the city of Ribeirão Preto-SP. The methods used will be developed in two stages, which include the construction of an indirect instrument to quantify the physical activity, the construction of the virtual assistant for the monitoring and validation of the instrument. The use of technological tools (the virtual assistant), as a routine in people's lives, is expected to contribute as a timely tool for collecting and processing data in this research in a fast, cheap and consistent way, supporting the integration of data between the pregnant and health units, contributing to the care of the pregnant woman through family medicine; providing improvement of the quality and safety in the care of pregnant women. At the end of this project will be finalized a Phd and a scientific graduated works. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DA SILVA, CARLA MICHELI; CASTRO PERDONA, GLEICI DA SILVA; SARTORELI, DANIELA SAES. Behavior of pregnant women regarding physical activity in gestational diabetes mellitus: secondary analysis of a descriptive cross-sectional study. Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, JUL 2021. (19/03984-8)