BENEFITS OF ACCESS TO RELIABLE INFORMATION THROUGH A TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION IN TIMES OF COVID

PINV 20-9 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY TO OPTIMIZE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN CHRONIC PATIENTS DURING THE COVID-19 CRISIS IN PARAGUAY

Abstract

The communication shows the benefits in access to reliable information through a technological solution in times of COVID-19 in Paraguay. With a research co-financed by CONACYT with FEEI funds, which aimed to study the effects of an intervention based on a technological solution to offer support, information and train empowerment skills in patients with chronic non-communicable diseases during COVID-19, it was possible to study how reliable information in times of uncertainty and infoxication educated, improved and empowered. The results show that there is a very positive assessment on the content, usefulness and ease of the technological solution, complemented with 6 additional interviews to the project, where participants of the experimental group stated that access to information was clear, easy, simple, practical, self-knowledge, collective benefit, learning, leisure and with impact on decision making such as vaccination.