There is no third-party involvement in the development process of the software except the authors.
Author contributions
CBMG, ILES, LLN, and VB: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. AHvM, MCB, XML, MACO, JAG, ACPL, RAG, and SL: Validation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
This research is part of the project “Development and implementation of a mobile application to promote prevention and oral health education interventions in older people in an integrated network of universities of the Council of Rectors of State Universities of Chile” which was approved by the Scientific Ethics Committee of “Universidad de la Frontera” and the reference number is 175-23, November 2023.
Consent to participate
Informed consent to participate in the study was obtained from all participants.
Consent to publication
Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials
The data cannot be shared due to the protection of private information of the participants of the study, requested by the scientific ethics committee.
Funding
This research is part of the project “Development and implementation of a mobile application to promote prevention and oral health education interventions in older people in an integrated network of universities of the Council of Rectors of State Universities of Chile” funded by the “Interuniversity Center of Healthy Aging (In Spanish: Centro Interuniversitario de Envejecimiento Saludable, CIES) [Number 009]” of the Consortium of State Universities of Chile. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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