Requirements for the Development of an App for a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Project: An Integrative Review

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202502.0719.v1
• Publication Date: 2025-02-12T01:23:41Z
• Authors: Fagner Alfredo Ar...; Fabio Biasotto Fe...; Marciana Fernande...; Igor de Oliveira ...; José Carlos Sánch...; Carla Aparecida A...

The Psychosocial Rehabilitation Project (PRP) app is a tool designed to structure and organize mental health care, guided by the theoretical and practical principles of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PR). This article aims to identify the functions, technological resources, and recommendations necessary for the development of a “psychosocial rehabilitation project app”. To achieve this, an integrative review was conducted with the research question: What recommendations, functions, and technological resources should be included in the prototyping and development of a “psychosocial rehabilitation project app” in mental health? In the search process, 834 articles were identified and exported to the online systematic review application Rayyan, resulting in 36 eligible articles for this study, along with one app. The reading of this material allowed the elicitation of three themes: Security and Privacy Policy; Design; and Software and Programming. To build a psychosocial rehabilitation project app, it is necessary to take the following precautions: guarantee the security and protection of data and choose technological resources that facilitate the management, construction, monitoring, and evaluation of psychosocial rehabilitation projects by mental health professionals.