ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
Measuring User Engagement with a Socially Connected, Gamified Health Promotion Mobile App.
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- Predicting Long-Term Engagement in mHealth Apps: Comparative Study of Engagement Indices.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Trial
- Engagement, Acceptability, and Impact of a Parenting App to Support Infant Sleep and Parent Well-Being: Quasi-Experimental Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2026Article
- Engagement of Users in Digital Health Applications: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Article
- User Engagement With a Mobile Health App for People Living With HIV: Observational Study Based on an Engagement Evaluation Framework.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Observational
- Parental and Demographic Predictors of Engagement in an mHealth Intervention: Observational Study From the Let's Grow Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Observational
- Experiences of social support and the role of engagement in a digital educational support group for adolescent mothers' health in the Dominican Republic.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Participant engagement is an important consideration in mHealth interventions and there are no standardised measurements available to guide researchers. This paper describes the engagement index customised for the Milk Man app, a mobile app designed to engage fathers with breastfeeding and parenting information. Participants were recruited from maternity hospitals in Perth, Western Australia. An engagement index with scores ranging from 0 to 100 was calculated. Kaplan Meier survival analysis was used to determine difference in duration of exclusive breastfeeding, and Pearson's chi square analysis was conducted to investigate the association of engagement level with demographic characteristics and exclusive breastfeeding at 6 weeks. While overall, partners of participants who installed Milk Man were less likely to have ceased exclusive breastfeeding at any time point from birth to six weeks postpartum, this result was modest and of borderline significance (log rank test
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