Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study

[EN] Standards and validation practices regarding mobile health apps need to be established to ensure their proper use and integration into medical practice. This preliminary study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the entire apps that have been awarded by a Quality Seal to identify signific...

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Autores: Gessa, Ana, Jiménez, Amor, Sancha, Pilar
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
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Internet data
Big data
Qca
Pls
Sem
Conference
Health app
Appsaludable
Quality seal
eHealth
Telecare
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spelling Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory studyGessa, AnaJiménez, AmorSancha, PilarWeb dataInternet dataBig dataQcaPlsSemConferenceHealth appAppsaludableQuality sealeHealthTelecare[EN] Standards and validation practices regarding mobile health apps need to be established to ensure their proper use and integration into medical practice. This preliminary study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the entire apps that have been awarded by a Quality Seal to identify significant differences according to the variables analyzed (user, developer, category and consumer ratings) and identified quality attributes. Although the applications analysed are characterised by their heterogeneity, this research found that seven out of 50 remarkable attributes had significant influence on the application evaluation process, according to the recommendations on design, use and assessment of health from AppSaludable. Only some attributes (adaptation of contents, pilot testing, and accessibility and usability) were correlated with some apps’ features. This study can contribute to improving both the processes of validation and quality of medical care of the citizens and in general, the medical practiceEditorial Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaRepositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politècnica de València Riunet20202020-07-02book parthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/148761reponame:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valénciainstname:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada (by-nc-nd) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:riunet.upv.es:10251/1487612026-06-13T07:49:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
title Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
spellingShingle Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
Gessa, Ana
Web data
Internet data
Big data
Qca
Pls
Sem
Conference
Health app
Appsaludable
Quality seal
eHealth
Telecare
title_short Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
title_full Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
title_fullStr Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
title_full_unstemmed Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
title_sort Evaluating accredited mHealth applications. An exploratory study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gessa, Ana
Jiménez, Amor
Sancha, Pilar
author Gessa, Ana
author_facet Gessa, Ana
Jiménez, Amor
Sancha, Pilar
author_role author
author2 Jiménez, Amor
Sancha, Pilar
author2_role author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Web data
Internet data
Big data
Qca
Pls
Sem
Conference
Health app
Appsaludable
Quality seal
eHealth
Telecare
topic Web data
Internet data
Big data
Qca
Pls
Sem
Conference
Health app
Appsaludable
Quality seal
eHealth
Telecare
description [EN] Standards and validation practices regarding mobile health apps need to be established to ensure their proper use and integration into medical practice. This preliminary study aims to conduct a comparative analysis of the entire apps that have been awarded by a Quality Seal to identify significant differences according to the variables analyzed (user, developer, category and consumer ratings) and identified quality attributes. Although the applications analysed are characterised by their heterogeneity, this research found that seven out of 50 remarkable attributes had significant influence on the application evaluation process, according to the recommendations on design, use and assessment of health from AppSaludable. Only some attributes (adaptation of contents, pilot testing, and accessibility and usability) were correlated with some apps’ features. This study can contribute to improving both the processes of validation and quality of medical care of the citizens and in general, the medical practice
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