Development and evaluation of e-learning materials for dental hygiene students in six schools: Using smartphones to learn dental treatment procedures.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of using e-learning on smartphones to provide dental hygiene education on dental treatment procedures.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial. Two-hundred ninety-three dental hygiene students in four universities, one junior college and one technical school took a preliminary examination, and based on the results, participants in each school were randomly divided into two groups, a test or control group.