Nishant Nishant, Gupta Arpit, Shrivastava Richa, Rai Arpita, Das Diptajit, Goyal Ashima
Unit of Public Health Dentistry, Oral Health Sciences Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Dental Institute, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.
J Oral Biol Craniofac Res. 2024 Jul-Aug;14(4):390-394. doi: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2024.04.011. Epub 2024 May 24.
The content of smartphone applications (apps) that offer smoking cessation interventions has been appraised in the past. Considering the high prevalence of smokeless tobacco (SLT) use in Southeast Asia, identifying high-quality and credible apps for SLT cessation would be more helpful.
This study evaluated the technical quality of apps for SLT cessation and their content adherence with the standard tobacco cessation guidelines.
A systematic search of SLT cessation smartphone apps freely available in the Google PlayStore was conducted using nine relevant search terms, and the first fifty apps under each search term were identified. The technical quality of the apps was rated using the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS). Adherence of the app content to the standard tobacco cessation guidelines was also determined.
Three apps were found to be relevant for SLT cessation. However, none of the apps was high-quality or incorporated existing evidence on SLT cessation.
Adherence of these apps to the tobacco cessation guidelines by the National Tobacco Control Program (NTCP), India and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), U.K., was limited only to a few checklist parameters.
过去曾对提供戒烟干预措施的智能手机应用程序（应用）的内容进行过评估。鉴于东南亚无烟烟草（SLT）的高使用率，识别高质量且可信的SLT戒烟应用会更有帮助。
本研究评估了SLT戒烟应用的技术质量及其内容与标准戒烟指南的符合程度。
使用九个相关搜索词对谷歌应用商店中免费提供的SLT戒烟智能手机应用进行系统搜索，并确定每个搜索词下的前五十个应用。使用移动应用评分量表（MARS）对应用的技术质量进行评分。还确定了应用内容与标准戒烟指南的符合程度。
发现有三款应用与SLT戒烟相关。然而，没有一款应用是高质量的，也没有纳入关于SLT戒烟的现有证据。
这些应用对印度国家烟草控制计划（NTCP）和英国国家卫生与临床优化研究所（NICE）的戒烟指南的遵循仅局限于少数几个清单参数。
