Analysing mHealth usage logs in RCTs: Explaining participants' interactions with type 2 diabetes self-management tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Introduction of mobile health (mHealth) devices to health intervention studies challenges us as researchers to adapt how we analyse the impact of these technologies. For interventions involving chronic illness self-management, we must consider changes in behaviour in addition to changes in health. Fortunately, these mHealth technologies can record participants' interactions via usage-logs during research interventions.

Objective

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of analysing mHealth usage-logs by presenting an in-depth analysis as a preliminary study for using behavioural theories to contextualize the user-recorded results of mHealth intervention studies. We use the logs collected by persons with type 2 diabetes during a randomized co

SUBMITTER: Bradway M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6117049 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature