Content Analysis of Persian Language Mobile Applications For Liver Diseases Using The Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS)

Background and aims: The rapid growth of liver diseases has led to the design of a large numberof mobile applications for the management and control of these diseases. This creates the need toanalyze and review related applications in this field. The purpose of this study was to evaluate thePersian language mobile applications in liver diseases.Method: In order to content analysis, comprehensive search was conducted using words such as“liver”, “ جگر ”, “hepat” in Cafe Bazaar and Myket markets in December ۲۰۲۲. The mobile apprating scale (MARS) was used to review the content of applications.Results: After removing unrelated applications, ۸ items were included in the study. According tothe results, the focus of all applications was on change behavior and physical health. The initialversion of two applications were paid and six items were free. According to the results of MARSquestionnaire, the minimum and maximum of application quality score were ۲.۵۳ and ۳.۶۷, respectively.Also, none of the applications were evaluated by end-user and various parameters suchas acceptance, applicability and satisfaction were not measured.Conclusion: The Persian liver mobile applications is in low level, and developers must pay moreattention to the functions and quality measures in design stage.

کلیدواژه ها:

mobile application ، liver ، MARS