Menopause apps: Personal health tracking, empowerment and epistemic injustice.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The majority of work in FemTech has focused on menstrual tracking apps but menopause apps are growing in popularity potentially offering greater empowerment for peri and post-menopausal women. Surprisingly little is known about women's actual experiences of using these apps, and how they relate to the epistemic injustice often experienced in relation to menopause. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the role menopause apps play in women's experience of empowerment and epistemic injustice.

Methods

We collected qualitative data, through an online reflection exercise and interviews, from 29 peri and post-menopausal women in the United Kingdom who had experience of using menopause apps.

Findings

The analysis identified two themes (1) Acquiring mor

SUBMITTER: Sillence E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12034958 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature