Baseline Smartphone App Survey Return in the Electronic Framingham Heart Study Offspring and Omni 1 Study: eCohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphone apps can be used to monitor chronic conditions and offer opportunities for self-assessment conveniently at home. However, few digital studies include older adults.

Objective

We aim to describe a new electronic cohort of older adults embedded in the Framingham Heart Study including baseline smartphone survey return rates and survey completion rates by smartphone type (iPhone [Apple Inc] and Android [Google LLC] users). We also aim to report survey results for selected baseline surveys and participant experience with this study's app.

Methods

Framingham Heart Study Offspring and Omni (multiethnic cohort) participants who owned a smartphone were invited to download this study's app that contained a range of survey types to report on different aspect

SUBMITTER: Rong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11706443 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature