Participant-Centered Engagement for Sustained Adherence to Smartwatches: A 12-Month Prospective Decentralized Digital Health Study.

ABSTRACT: Adherence in digital health studies with extended observation periods (≥ 12 months) is limited, and participant retention considerably reduces with time. The US Food and Drug Administration has issued guidelines for improving participant engagement, adherence, and diversity in digital health studies combined with decentralized procedures. A decentralized digital health study on well-being was designed with protocolized procedures to study the feasibility of participant engagement and technology support to facilitate adherence (wearing the smartwatch ≥ 70% of time) sustained over a 12-month period. At the end of the study, participants were asked about their ease of participation and free-response questions about how wearing the smartwatches impacted their physical wellness. An inductive th

SUBMITTER: Wilton AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11829698 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature