Desenvolvimento de planilhas eletrônicas como ferramenta de apoio ao discente no atendimento nutricional

Abstract

Information Technology (IT) have generated profound changes in pedagogical practices in the classroom. The insertion of this new reality in universities is a natural and necessary process. If applied correctly, they can contribute to more effective learning and greater motivation to learn among students. The present study was developed in two stages, where it sought to identify in the literature software-type technologies with educational potential, for nutrition students through an integrative literature review, so that an educational software could be developed, based on electronic spreadsheets, of the open simulator type, as an instrument to support the construction of knowledge in higher education in nutrition. Data collection was carried out between the months of December 2021 to March 2022, in the databases: Portal Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO); Virtual Health Library of the Ministry of Health (BVS) and Google Scholar. Original articles were included that answered the guiding question of this review, available in full, published in Portuguese or English. The final sample consisted of nine articles, which were published between 2016 and 2012. They show the potential of using software for teaching and learning, since four of them were based on spreadsheets, while four studies were authoring software. For the construction of the software, the recursive development methodology was used. The technology was developed using Microsoft Excel software, and allows the user to carry out nutritional anamnesis activities, anthropometric calculations, calculation of nutritional indexes and energy needs, quantification of macronutrients and micronutrients of a food plan from a table of nutritional composition of food and household measures. The development of the tool was successfully achieved, with that it is expected to assist the student in the steps of nutritional care.