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Who Uses Mobile Phone Health Apps and Does Use Matter? A Secondary Data Analytics Approach

2017; JMIR Publications; Volume: 19; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2196/jmir.5604

1439-4456

Jennifer K. Carroll, Anne Moorhead, Raymond Bond, William G. LeBlanc, Robert J. Petrella, Kevin Fiscella,

Technology Use by Older Adults

Background: Mobile phone use and the adoption of healthy lifestyle software apps (“health apps”) are rapidly proliferating. There is limited information on the users of health apps in terms of their social demographic and health characteristics, intentions to change, and actual health behaviors.