Designing the Dental Mobile Application of “Dana and Dentistry” and Evaluating the Quality of its Illustrations by Parents

Background: The picture book Dana and Dentistry , with practical topics of pediatric dentistry, telling stories for preschoolers as simple line drawings, is in the initial design stage. Parents play a pivotal role in choosing books for offspring. Therefore, parents correct understanding of illustrations in the book was of great importance. The present study aimed at designing the dental mobile application of Dana and Dentistry and evaluating the quality of its illustrations from the parents perspective. Methods: The present descriptive-analytical study, with a cross sectional design, developed a raw mobile application coded by experts, through which the quality of its illustrations was evaluated by parents enrolled by the convenience random sampling method. Data was analyzed with SPSS version 24 using ANOVA, considering P = 0.05 a level of significance. Results: The mobile learning application of Dana and Dentistry was designed. From among 320 parents enrolled in the survey, 86.25% were female and 13.75% male, with a mean age of 32.51±5.4 years. The subject of book chapters was predictable for more than 90% of the participants. The quality score of illustrations was above 9 (out of 10). The qualitative evaluation of illustrations was neither significantly correlated with age (P = 0.511) nor with gender (P = 0.526). Conclusion: The illustrations on the mobile application of Dana and Dentistry were clear and expressive from more than 90% of the parents points of view; and they were satisfied with the design, coloring quality, and character of the Dana cartoon.