title: Development of the TabacoQuest app for computerization of data collection on smoking in psychiatric nursing.
abstract: to develop a mobile app for research on the use of tobacco among psychiatric patients and the general population.
  
  
  
  applied research with the technological development of an app for data collection on an Android tablet. For its development, we considered three criteria: data security, benefits for participants and optimization of the time of researchers. We performed tests with twenty fictitious participants and a final test with six pilots.
  
  
  
  the app collects data, stores them in the database of the tablet and export then to an Excel spreadsheet.
  
  
  
  calculator, stopwatch, offline operation, branching logic, field validation and automatic tabulation.
  
  
  
  the app prevents human error, increases the quality of the data by validating them during the interview, allows the performing of automatic tabulation and makes the interviews less tiring. Its success may encourage the use of this and other computational resources by nurses as a research tool.
authors: Doctoral Student, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors: Renata Marques de
authors: RM
authors: Oliveira
authors: BSc in Biomedical Informatics, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors: Alexandre Freitas
authors: AF
authors: Duarte
authors: PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP. Brazil.
authors: Domingos
authors: D
authors: Alves
authors: PhD, Retired Full Professor, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.
authors: Antonia Regina Ferreira
authors: AR
authors: Furegato
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications; D063731:Mobile Applications; D048108:Nursing Informatics; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*