Background: Consumer-based wearables are becoming more popular and provide opportunities to track individual’s clinical parameters remotely. However, literature about their criterion and known groups validity is scarce. Objective: This study aimed to assess the…
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Background: ViSi Mobile has the capability of monitoring a patient’s posture continuously during hospitalization. Analysis of ViSi telemetry data enables researchers and healthcare providers to quantify an individual patient’s movement and investigate collective patterns…
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Background: Personal safety is a widespread public health issue that affects people of all demographics. There is a growing interest in the use of mobile apps for enhancing personal safety, particularly for children and…
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Background: As the most malignant type of cancer in the female reproductive system, ovarian cancer (OC) has become the second leading cause of death among Chinese women. Chemotherapy is the main treatment for OC…
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Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH), is a chronic and complex condition, requiring consistent management and education. The widespread use of smartphones has opened possibilities for mobile health apps to support both patients and healthcare professionals…
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Background: The use of wearable sensors is being explored as a challenging way to accurately identify smoking behaviors by measuring physiological and environmental factors in real-life settings. Although they hold potential benefits for aiding…
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Background: Despite the growing availability of smoking cessation apps, low engagement and cessation rates have remained a significant challenge. To address this issue, we used a user-centered design to iteratively develop a mobile app…
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Background: Obesity is a rapidly increasing health problem in China, causing massive economic and health losses annually. Many techniques have emerged to help people with obesity better adhere to intervention programs and achieve their…
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Background: Effective management of non-communicable diseases requires ongoing coordination and monitoring, often facilitated by e-health technologies such as mobile health (mHealth) applications. The end-user Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS) is a valuable tool for…
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Background: Background: Although at the base of the pyramid-shaped organization of the Rwandan health system, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are central to the community-based management of disease outbreaks. Objective: Objectives: This mixed-methods study explored…
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