Who are mobile app users from healthy lifestyle websites? Analysis of patterns of app use and user characteristics
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DOI: 10.1007/s13142-017-0525-x
Abstract: The use of online communities and websites for health information has proliferated along with the use of mobile apps for managing health behaviors such as diet and exercise. The scarce evidence available to date suggests… read more here.
Keywords: app use; use; nutrition weight; user characteristics ... See more keywords
Using smartphone apps to find sexual partners: A review of the literature
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sexol.2018.05.001
Abstract: Summary In recent years, online dating has become increasingly popular and widespread worldwide, changing the way people approach potential new sexual or romantic partners. The current paper aims to offer an overview of recent research… read more here.
Keywords: app use; sexual partners; find sexual; smartphone apps ... See more keywords
Differential influences of social support on app use for diabetes self-management – a mixed methods approach
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DOI: 10.1186/s12911-020-01173-3
Abstract: Background Recent studies increasingly examine social support for diabetes self-management delivered via mHealth. In contrast to previous studies examining social support as an outcome of technology use, or technology as a means for delivering social… read more here.
Keywords: app use; use; support; social support ... See more keywords
Associations of Health App Use and Perceived Effectiveness in People With Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes: Population-Based Survey
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DOI: 10.2196/12179
Abstract: Background Mobile health apps can help to change health-related behaviors and manage chronic conditions in patients with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and diabetes mellitus, but a certain level of health literacy and electronic health (eHealth) literacy… read more here.
Keywords: app use; health app; app; health ... See more keywords
Identifying App-Based Meditation Habits and the Associated Mental Health Benefits: Longitudinal Observational Study.
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DOI: 10.2196/27282
Abstract: BACKGROUND Behavioral habits are often initiated by contextual cues that occur at approximately the same time each day; so, it may be possible to identify a reflexive habit based on the temporal similarity of repeated… read more here.
Keywords: app use; temporal similarity; meditation; health ... See more keywords
Real-world Implementation of a Smartphone-Based Psychoeducation Program for Bipolar Disorder: Observational Ecological Study
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DOI: 10.2196/31565
Abstract: Background SIMPLe is an internet‐delivered self‐management mobile app for bipolar disorder (BD) designed to combine technology with evidence-based interventions and facilitate access to psychoeducational content. The SIMPLe app was launched to the real world to… read more here.
Keywords: disorder; retention; use; real world ... See more keywords
Individual and Parental Factors of Adolescents’ mHealth App Use: Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Study
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DOI: 10.2196/40340
Abstract: Background Knowledge of the characteristics of adolescents who use mobile health (mHealth) apps to monitor health and how these characteristics differ from those of app nonusers is limited. Objective We aimed to determine mHealth app… read more here.
Keywords: mhealth app; health; app use; mhealth apps ... See more keywords
Use and perceived usefulness of a just-in-time resonance breathing intervention adjunct for substance use disorder: Contextual and physiological predictors
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.945751
Abstract: Craving for alcohol and other drugs is often described as a momentary hyperarousal state that interferes with one's ability to use top-down strategies. As such, it may be best interrupted ‘in the moment' through bottom-up… read more here.
Keywords: app use; intervention; use disorder; use ... See more keywords
Mobile Dating Applications and the Sexual Self: A Cluster Analysis of Users’ Characteristics
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19031535
Abstract: The online environment has had a profound sociocultural impact, and its implications pose new challenges to modern-day societies. The digital sexual and dating domains have dramatically affected sexual and romantic behavior and norms, and yet,… read more here.
Keywords: sexual self; cluster analysis; self; app use ... See more keywords
The Association between mHealth App Use and Healthcare Satisfaction among Clients at Outpatient Clinics: A Cross-Sectional Study in Inner Mongolia, China
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19116916
Abstract: Mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) have been developed in hospital settings to allocate and manage medical care services, which is one of the national strategies to improve health care in China. Little is known about… read more here.
Keywords: satisfaction; app use; mhealth app; mhealth ... See more keywords
Perceptions of Smartphone App Use among Mothers Raising Young Children
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19137585
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to categorize subjective perceptions of smartphone app use among mothers with young children, derive characteristics of each perception type, and interpret the findings to determine appropriate smartphone use for… read more here.
Keywords: smartphone app; young children; app use; use ... See more keywords