ArticleOnline journal of public health informatics2025
Real-World Data on Alcohol Consumption Behavior Among Smartphone Health Care App Users in Japan: Retrospective Study.
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backgroundAlthough many studies have used smartphone apps to examine alcohol consumption, none have clearly delineated long-term (>1 year) consumption among the general population.
objectiveThe objective of our study is to elucidate in detail the alcohol consumption behavior of alcohol drinkers in Japan using individual real-world data. During the state of emergency associated with the COVID-19 outbreak, the government requested that people restrict social gatherings and stay at home, so we hypothesize that alcohol consumption among Japanese working people decreased during this period due to the decrease in occasions for alcohol consumption. This analysis was only possible with individual real-world data. We also aimed to clarify the effects of digital interventions based on notifications about daily alcohol consumption.
methodsWe conducted a retrospective study targeting 5-year log data from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2022, obtained from a commercial smartphone health care app (CALO mama Plus). First, to investigate the possible size of the real-world data, we investigated the rate of active users of this commercial smartphone app. Second, to validate the individual real-world data recorded in the app, we compared individual real-world data from 9991 randomly selected users with government-provided open data on the number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases in Japan and with nationwide alcohol consumption data. To clarify the effects of digital interventions, we investigated the relationship between 2 types of notification records (ie, "good" and "bad") and a 3-day daily alcohol consumption log following the notification. The protocol of this retrospective study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Kyoto University Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine (R4699).
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