School of Dental Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia.
School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
PLoS One. 2021 Sep 8;16(9):e0257035. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257035. eCollection 2021.
In several nations, caries in pre-school children remain a significant oral health issue. In an outbreak period such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), remote contact and education aimed at the prevention of oral diseases and the preservation of children's oral health are more relevant than ever. Currently, the amount of published applications is far higher than the published scientific studies while the problems of usability remains vulnerable. The goal of this paper was to comprehensively document the phase of development and usability testing of a mobile application for diet and oral health, namely Gigiku Sihat, which was primarily intended to be used by parents and guardians of pre-school children. The mobile application was developed using the System Development Life Cycle principle. Apart from searching for the available oral health application on Android platform, the initial requirement gathering process consisted of situational analysis, concept generation, content development, and features and functional requirement determination. The mobile application design and implementation evolved at each phase before being finalised. Gigiku Sihat was successfully developed in the Bahasa Malaysia. Finalised Gigiku Sihat was installed on mobile devices to determine the usability using translated and validated System Usability Scale questionnaire namely Skala Kebolehgunaan Aplikasi Mudah Alih (SKAMA). The mean score usability with score of 68 and above was deemed to have good usability. This study found that Gigiku Sihat mean (SD) usability score was 77.0 (14.18). The results were promising as they showed that Gigiku Sihat had a good usability. Thus, the development of this mobile application focusing on diet and oral health served as a new source of oral health education and provided a necessary foundation in developing future improved mobile application development for parents in the prevention of early childhood caries.
在一些国家，学龄前儿童的龋齿仍然是一个重大的口腔健康问题。在像 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）这样的爆发期间，远程联系和针对口腔疾病预防和儿童口腔健康维护的教育比以往任何时候都更加重要。目前，已发表的应用程序数量远远超过已发表的科学研究，而可用性问题仍然很脆弱。本文的目的是全面记录用于饮食和口腔健康的移动应用程序 Gigiku Sihat 的开发和可用性测试阶段，该应用程序主要供学龄前儿童的父母和监护人使用。该移动应用程序是使用系统开发生命周期原则开发的。除了在 Android 平台上搜索可用的口腔健康应用程序外，初始需求收集过程还包括情境分析、概念生成、内容开发以及确定功能和功能需求。在最终确定之前，移动应用程序设计和实施在每个阶段都不断发展。Gigiku Sihat 成功地以马来语开发。最终确定的 Gigiku Sihat 被安装在移动设备上，使用经过翻译和验证的系统可用性量表问卷 Skala Kebolehgunaan Aplikasi Mudah Alih（SKAMA）来确定可用性。可用性得分为 68 分及以上的平均分数被认为具有良好的可用性。本研究发现，Gigiku Sihat 的平均（SD）可用性得分为 77.0（14.18）。结果令人鼓舞，因为它们表明 Gigiku Sihat 具有良好的可用性。因此，专注于饮食和口腔健康的这款移动应用程序的开发为口腔健康教育提供了新的来源，并为未来开发针对预防儿童早期龋齿的父母的改进型移动应用程序奠定了必要的基础。
