The Role Of Information Communication Technology In Higher Education

Alternative methods such as the use of technologies that will facilitate research and extension are on the rise. An example is the application of electronic tools focused on information technology, mainly in quantitative delineation research, since these have the objective of analyzing facts or phenomena through numerical data, using collection instruments such as questionnaires and forms. Thus, this research aims to report the experience of undergraduates of the scientific initiation of the Nursing and Electrical Engineering courses regarding the integration of these different areas of knowledge in the construction and use of online questionnaires and specific software for the analysis and data collection in a scientific research carried out with elderly people diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus. The study was carried out with five questionnaires: Socio-demographic and economic; Health conditions; Beck Anxiety Inventory, Geriatric Depression Scale, and WHOQOL-OLD. The first step was the development of questionnaires on the platform. After all the development, the questionnaires were ready to go to the field. Where each researcher completed the questions and sent the answers to the database, and Google system already stores them, making it possible to generate spreadsheets and tables for later analysis. The analysis was done using known statistical software, SPSS and Microsoft Excel, using the available descriptive and correlation statistics. According to the researchers' reports, using the Google Forms platform made it possible to make the application of the questionnaires less expensive and more dynamic in the research. In addition to the statistical tools greatly increasing the efficiency of the research due to the short time spent in the data analysis.