WebProject: toolbox estudante universitário

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Wilson Jesus Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/2116
• topic: Web platform; University students; Psychological well-being; Mental health; Self-help material; Plataforma web; Estudante universitário; Bem-estar psicológico; Saúde mental; Material de autoajuda; Engenharia Informática; .; Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

The Internet has been growing exponentially in recent years, having a major impact on how information is passed on to people. The technology has served different purposes, especially in the field of Psychology, where its potential use in mental health interventions is identified, namely to help people change certain thoughts and behaviors, promoting their psychological well-being. Throughout university journey, there are many challenges that a student has to face, such as managing anxiety, time, methods of work, among others. It is therefore imperative that universities take an active role in promoting the well-being and mental health of their students in order to help them overcome these challenges. The present project consists of the development of an interactive web platform for university students that aims to contribute to their psychological well-being by providing contents and exercises based on the principles of cognitive-behavioral and positive psychology therapies, constituting a tool for self-help and mutual-help. After a research on already existing platforms within the scope of this project and a research on the concepts of Psychology on which this project is based, the necessary requirements and functionalities for the platform were defined. Based on this specification, some technologies (content management systems, frameworks and databases) were analyzed to be used in the implementation of the solution. During the platform development process, usability tests and focus groups were conducted with students from different areas in order to detect possible errors and receive new suggestions and feedback to meet their considerations. The technologies used for development have proven to be useful and able to meet the specified requirements, and usability tests have revealed that the platform does not contain any major issues that undermine this attribute, with test results being improved with each test performed.