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ArticleJournal of health psychology2025

Value of a quality label and European healthcare professionals' willingness to recommend health apps: An experimental vignette study.

Ieva Biliunaite, Laurens van Gestel, Petra Hoogendoorn, Marieke Adriaanse

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Article in Journal of health psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Ieva BiliunaiteLeiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9111-0891
Laurens van GestelLeiden University, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2461-4301
Petra HoogendoornLeiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
Marieke AdriaanseLeiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate healthcare professionals' (HCPs') willingness to recommend health apps presented with versus without the CEN-ISO/TS 82304-2 health app quality label. The study was an experimental vignette study describing 12 short hypothetical scenarios, with Label (absent vs present) as a between and Type of App (prevention vs self-monitoring vs healthcare) and Patient Socioeconomic Status (low vs high) as within-subjects factors. The main outcome measure was HCPs' willingness to recommend apps. A total of 116 HCPs took part in the study. A significant main effect of the label was found. Further, HCPs were most willing to recommend self-management apps and more willing to recommend apps to high as opposed to low SES patients. However, the effect of the label did not differ between apps or according to patients' SES. Results confirm that the quality label has potential for increasing willingness to changing HCPs' recommendation behavior.

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Attitude of Health PersonnelHealth PersonnelMobile ApplicationsAdultEuropeFemaleHumansMaleMiddle Agede-healthhealth appshealth behaviorhealthcare professionalhealth care systemsrecommending appssocioeconomic status

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PMID39096027
PMCPMC12052922

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