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Acceptability of an adolescent lifestyle mHealth app: a qualitative study using focus groups and interviews.
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Background: Although many studies have evaluated behavioral mobile health (mHealth) usability in adults, far fewer have examined acceptability among adolescents, particularly regarding sustained engagement for lifestyle and behavior change. Adolescents have distinct developmental needs and design preferences, yet most mHealth tools are adapted from adult models, contributing to low adoption and limited continued use. In adolescent mHealth, understanding acceptability among adolescents, caregivers, and clinicians is essential to ensure interventions are developmentally appropriate and feasible for clinical integration. Given the complex social and contextual factors shaping adolescent health behaviors, qualitative methods are well-suited to capturing stakeholder experiences beyond usability. This study examines the acceptability of CommitFit Methods: Two sequential assessments evaluated CommitFit Results: Analysis demonstrated high acceptability across adolescents, caregivers, and clinicians. Two additional themes-intervention motivational aspects and stakeholder endorsement-emerged as critical determinants of adolescent engagement and sustained use. Findings reflected input from a socio-demographically diverse cohort varying by race, gender, household income, and rurality, as well as clinicians from family medicine, pediatrics, and psychology. Consistency in perceived acceptability across stakeholder groups and design and post development phases underscores the value of inclusive, multi-stakeholder involvement in developing clinically relevant adolescent mHealth interventions. Conclusions: Using the seven TFA domains, supplemented by intervention motivational aspects and stakeholder endorsement, this study identified key drivers of adolescent engagement with CommitFit
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