ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2023
Use of Consumer Wearables in Health Research: Issues and Considerations.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Digital sleep phenotype and wrist actigraphy in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis and people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Device and Data Access Considerations for Digital Health Studies Using Consumer-Grade Wearables: An Experience-Based Tutorial.Clinical and translational science · 2026Article
- Implementation of a pragmatic pathway to ensure high-quality processing of heterogeneous remote health sensing data.Smart health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Accuracy of Optical Heart Rate Measurements for 10 Commercial Wearables in Different Climate Conditions and Activities: Instrument Validation Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Navigating the Choice Between Wrist-Worn Research- and Consumer-Grade Wearables to Monitor Movement Behaviours: A Perspective.International journal of public health · 2026Article
- Postoperative use of fitness trackers for continuous monitoring of vital signs: a survey of hospitalized patients.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025Article
- Developing Infrastructure to Realize the Value of Patient-Generated Health Data in a Large Integrated Health Care System: The Veterans Health Administration Experience.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Stress in action wearables database: A database of noninvasive wearable monitors with systematic technical, reliability, validity, and usability information.Behavior research methods · 2025Article
- What Clinicians Should Tell Patients About Wearable Devices and Data Privacy: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2025Review
- The Potential of Wearable Sensors for Detecting Cognitive Rumination: A Scoping Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Next generation performance status: digital health technologies across the lung cancer continuum.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Review
- From wearable sensor data to digital biomarker development: ten lessons learned and a framework proposal.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Review
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
As wearable devices, which allow individuals to track and self-manage their health, become more ubiquitous, the opportunities are growing for researchers to use these sensors within interventions and for data collection. They offer access to data that are captured continuously, passively, and pragmatically with minimal user burden, providing huge advantages for health research. However, the growth in their use must be coupled with consideration of their potential limitations, in particular, digital inclusion, data availability, privacy, ethics of third-party involvement, data quality, and potential for adverse consequences. In this paper, we discuss these issues and strategies used to prevent or mitigate them and recommendations for researchers using wearables as part of interventions or for data collection.
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