Open AccessEvaluation of Dried Urine Spot Method to Screen Cotinine among Tobacco Dependents: An Exploratory Study
Author(s) -
Raka Jain,
Rizwana Quraishi,
Anjeet Verma
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/ijpsym.ijpsym_434_16
Subject(s) - cotinine , chromatography , urine , nicotine , chemistry , metabolite , detection limit , urine sample , medicine , biochemistry
Assessment of cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine in body fluids, is an important approach for validating the self-report among tobacco users. Adaptation of assays on dried urine spots (DUSs) has advantages of ease of collection, transportation, minimal invasiveness, and requirement of small volume. The aim of the present study was to develop an efficient method for testing cotinine in DUSs and evaluating its clinical applicability.