IADR Abstract Archives
Reliability of A New Mobile App for Oral Health Survey
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a mobile devices approach using the Oral Health Survey Mobile Application (OHSMA) for inputting and recording the data compared with using paper forms.
Methods: The OHSMA android app was created to facilitate collecting and transferring oral health status data. Eighty-four schoolchildren who attending checkups at school were enrolled. Following the 1997 WHO criteria oral health survey, data were recorded using the newly developed OHSMA compared with using paper forms. These oral health status, along with patient information, were transmitted from the Android App to the main server and its summary can be retrieved through electronic mail. The assessments of reliability with Kappa (K) statistic were compared to the traditional paper forms.
Results: The prevalence of these schoolchildren was 57.1%. The total mean dmft and DMFT were 2.07 (d+D = 1.71, m+M = 0.13, and f+F = 0.23). The inter-recorder agreement for the OHSMA android app compared to the paper forms was estimated as almost perfect (K = 0.96).
Conclusions: Despite some limitations, this study suggests that the mobile application has the potential to collect valuable oral health survey data and mobile phone technology can be combined to create an inexpensive and reliable surveying tool.
Methods: The OHSMA android app was created to facilitate collecting and transferring oral health status data. Eighty-four schoolchildren who attending checkups at school were enrolled. Following the 1997 WHO criteria oral health survey, data were recorded using the newly developed OHSMA compared with using paper forms. These oral health status, along with patient information, were transmitted from the Android App to the main server and its summary can be retrieved through electronic mail. The assessments of reliability with Kappa (K) statistic were compared to the traditional paper forms.
Results: The prevalence of these schoolchildren was 57.1%. The total mean dmft and DMFT were 2.07 (d+D = 1.71, m+M = 0.13, and f+F = 0.23). The inter-recorder agreement for the OHSMA android app compared to the paper forms was estimated as almost perfect (K = 0.96).
Conclusions: Despite some limitations, this study suggests that the mobile application has the potential to collect valuable oral health survey data and mobile phone technology can be combined to create an inexpensive and reliable surveying tool.