Realidade virtual como estratégia de telerreabilitação para pessoas com transtorno do espectro do autismo durante o isolamento social da Covid 19

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Amanda Figueiredo Santos de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/3756
• topic: Promoção de saúde - Pandemia; Covid-19; Realidade virtual; Telerreabilitação; Transtorno do espectro autista; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

Over the years, new forms of interaction have emerged between the environment and the human being, among them Virtual Reality (VR) that has gained greater attention during the social distancing of COVID-19, in which children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) had face-to-face activities suspended. Thus, it is essential to invest in new intervention strategies for the protection of more vulnerable groups, such as the use of virtual reality, on which the literature presents little evidence of its use in specific groups. In this context, the present study aimed to investigate the performance of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a Virtual Reality (VR) software task during the context of the COVID 19 pandemic. This study has an analytical, observational and cross-sectional design. A telerehabilitation protocol was applied to 44 participants, 22 with ASD and 22 with typical development, matched by age and gender. To this end, an online platform that made available the game called MoveHero was used, and a protocol of evaluations and socioeconomic questionnaire was applied. From the obtaining of the results, two scientific articles were prepared. The first one emphasized the motor performance, the intensity of physical activity, and the engagement in tasks that improved with the practice of the game, pointing out an effective possibility of remote intervention as a complementary therapy to face-to-face monitoring. And the focus of the second article was to study the association between the performance of children with ASD in the game and the socioeconomic status of their family, in which no significant correlation was identified. These results suggest that the use of virtual reality can be a functional approach to engage children with ASD in therapies and positively adhere to computer games that stimulate learning with interactive motor and cognitive challenges, which motivate individuals to participate in motor activities to achieve better development, and although there is no relationship of the child's performance and socioeconomic status, access to the game may be restricted for low-income audiences. Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder. Covid-19. Telerehabilitation. Virtual Reality.