ReviewmHealth2021
Mobile app development in health research: pitfalls and solutions.
Review in mHealth, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Interventions for Young Men Who Have Sex With Men and Young Transgender Women Living with HIV.AIDS and behavior · 2024Pooled it
- The effectiveness of a drink-counting and a breathalyser-coupled smartphone application for reduced heavy drinking among alcohol-dependent adults in Sweden: A randomised controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2025Trial
- Factors associated with mobile app-based ordering of HIV self-test kits among men who have sex with men in Atlanta, Detroit and New York City: an exploratory secondary analysis of a randomized control trial.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2023Trial
- Adding a Prevention Intervention to an Established App: The Blued+ HIV Prevention Pilot Study in Beijing and Chengdu, China.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2026Article
- Weather-Enhanced Machine Learning for Time-Resolved Risk Stratification of Clinically Managed Hymenoptera-Related Sting Events in an Urban German Region.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Creation of an mHealth Infrastructure to Support the Development and Delivery of mHealth Interventions: Protocol for Demonstration Projects Addressing Smoking Cessation in Cancer Care.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Exploring Perceived Utility of a Clinic-Integrated HIV Prevention App for Men Who Have Sex With Men in Malaysia: A Qualitative Think-Aloud Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Evaluating an AI-Enabled Mobile Mental Health Monitoring Tool Among Family Caregivers of Adults Living With Cancer: Single-Arm Feasibility and Acceptability Trial Protocol.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Considerations for mHealth development: lessons learned from two diabetes education apps.mHealth · 2026Article
- A Pocket Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging Research Using Mobile Visual Oddball, Multimodal Electroencephalography, and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Imaging: Instrument Validation Study.JMIR neurotechnology · 2026Article
- COMBINE EBIs: A novel COllaborative Method for Building INterventions from Existing Evidence-Based Interventions.Annals of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Evaluating a drink-counting and a breathalyzer-coupled app for monitoring alcohol use: A comparison with timeline followback and peth biomarker.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Integrating a Combination HIV Prevention Intervention Into a Widely Used Geosocial App for Chinese Men Who Have Sex With Men: Protocol for a Single-Arm Pilot and Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Clinicians' perspectives on integrating smartphone application data into routine alcohol dependency treatment: factors influencing implementation.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
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- Level of Agreement Between a Modified, Three-Step Menstrual Cycle Tracking Method and a Female-Health Menstrual Cycle Tracking App.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review on Health Economic Evaluations of Telerehabilitation for Chronic Spinal Pain.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Socioeconomic determinants of male contraceptive use in South Africa: a secondary analysis of the 2016 SADHS data.BMC public health · 2024Article
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- Exploring mHealth applications for self-management of chronic low back pain: A survey of features and benefits.Heliyon · 2023Review
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Mobile app health research presents myriad opportunities to improve health, and simultaneously introduces a new set of challenges that are non-intuitive and extend beyond typical training received by researchers. Informed by our experiences with app development for health research, we discuss some of the most salient pitfalls when working with emerging technology as well as potential strategies to avoid or resolve these challenges. To address challenges at the project level, we suggest strategies that researchers can use to future-proof their research, such as using theory and involving those with app development expertise as part of a research team. At the structural level, we include a new model to characterize the relationship between technology- and research-timelines, and provide ideas regarding how to best address this challenge. Given that screen-based time now predominates our lived experiences, it is important that health researchers have the capacity and structural support to develop interventions that utilize these technologies, assess them rigorously, and ensure their timely and equitable dissemination.
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