Actionable health app evaluation: translating expert frameworks into objective metrics.
Adverse effects
Translational research
Journal
NPJ digital medicine
ISSN: 2398-6352
Titre abrégé: NPJ Digit Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101731738
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
received:
20
02
2020
accepted:
06
07
2020
entrez:
22
8
2020
pubmed:
22
8
2020
medline:
22
8
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
As use and availability of mobile health apps have increased, so too has the need for a thorough, accessible framework for app evaluation. The American Psychiatric Association's app evaluation model has emerged as a way to critically assess an app by considering accessibility, privacy and security, clinical foundation, engagement, and interoperability; however, there is no centralized database where users can view how various health apps perform when assessed via the APA model. In this perspective, we propose and outline our effort to translate the APA's model for the evaluation of health apps into a set of objective metrics that can be published online, making the framework actionable and accessible to a broad audience. The questions from the APA model were operationalized into 105 objective questions that are either binary or numeric. These questions serve as the foundation of an online database, where app evaluation consists of answering these 105 questions and can be crowdsourced. While the database has yet to be published and crowdsourced, initial internal testing demonstrated excellent interrater reliability. The database proposed here introduces a public and interactive approach to data collection that is guided by the APA model. The published product enables users to sort through the many mobile health apps and filter them according to individual preferences and priorities, making the ever-growing health app market more navigable.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32821855
doi: 10.1038/s41746-020-00312-4
pii: 312
pmc: PMC7393366
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Pagination
100Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2020.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interestsJ.T. declares unrelated research support from Otuska. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
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