Research on mHealth apps provides mixed evidence regarding their effectiveness for
behavior change, including physical activity. Synthesizing prior perspectives, we test …

Mobile health (mHealth) apps have great potential to improve health outcomes. Given that
mHealth apps have become ubiquitous, there is limited focus on their abandonment. Data …

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are increasingly implemented in multiple aspects of
healthcare, including primary cardiovascular prevention through fitness and physical activity …

Thousands of smartphone apps geared toward monitoring health behaviors are released
regularly. Even as developers flood the market with mHealth apps, consumers seem …

Background Emerging evidence suggests that individuals use mHealth apps in multiple
disjointed ways in the real-world—individuals, for example, may engage, take breaks, and re …

Mobile devices have become widely popular in recent years. This popularity has been
accompanied by the adoption of technologies created for those devices such as mobile …

Background While there has been an explosion of mobile device applications (apps)
promoting healthful behaviors, including physical activity and sedentary patterns …

Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) are widely used tools that provide support for
people seeking help managing their health in a particular behavioral domain (eg, physical …

Approximately one-third of adults in the United States are physically inactive. This is a
significant public health concern as physical activity (PA) can influence the risk of …

Given the widespread adoption and technical possibilities of mobile technology, mobile
health apps could be potentially effective tools to intervene in people's daily routines and …