ArticleHeadache2020
What are Headache Smartphone Application (App) Users Actually Looking for in Apps: A Qualitative Analysis of App Reviews to Determine a Patient Centered Approach to Headache Smartphone Apps.
Article in Headache, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The biopsychosocial perspective on designing mobile health apps for self-management of chronic headaches.Health systems (Basingstoke, England) · 2025Article
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- Feasibility and Usability of a Mobile App-Based Interactive Care Plan for Migraine in a Community Neurology Practice: Development and Pilot Implementation Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Headache providers' perspectives of headache diaries in the era of increasing technology use: a qualitative study.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Development of a text message-based headache diary in adolescents and children.Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2022Article
- A systematic evaluation of primary headache management apps leveraging behavior change techniques.Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2022Article
- mBrain: towards the continuous follow-up and headache classification of primary headache disorder patients.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2022Observational
- Computerized migraine diagnostic tools: a systematic review.Therapeutic advances in chronic disease · 2022Article
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- [Digitalization in headache therapy].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundMany headache smartphone applications (apps) are commercially available. A Modified Delphi Study aimed to determine specialists' expectations of what a headache app should entail but consumer expectations of headache apps have not been evaluated extensively.
objectiveTo evaluate publicly available reviews of headache apps to understand app features that motivate the consumers to use apps.
methodsThe Google Play and Apple App Stores were systematically searched for headache/migraine diary apps with 10+ consumer reviews. A maximum of 300 "Most Helpful" reviews for each app were extracted. Four coders coded reviews and resolved discrepancies. Themes and subthemes were created based on codes used 5+ times.
resultsAbout 15 apps met the study criteria (9 Android, 6 IOS). 945 reviews were coded. Four themes emerged: (1) App allows users to track headache characteristics, potential triggers, and treatments; (2) App usability; (3) Personalization and features to assess trends in data are key motivators for app use; (4) Ease with exportation and viewing data is critical. DISCUSSION: A user-centered design with the ability to (1) customize key features including headache characteristics, potential triggers, and treatments, (2) assess trends in data, and (3) view and export data would best optimize headache smartphone applications based on consumer preference.
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