Assessment of menstrual health status and evolution through mobile apps for fertility awareness.

ABSTRACT: For most women of reproductive age, assessing menstrual health and fertility typically involves regular visits to a gynecologist or another clinician. While these evaluations provide critical information on an individual's reproductive health status, they typically rely on memory-based self-reports, and the results are rarely, if ever, assessed at the population level. In recent years, mobile apps for menstrual tracking have become very popular, allowing us to evaluate the reliability and tracking frequency of millions of self-observations, thereby providing an unparalleled view, both in detail and scale, on menstrual health and its evolution for large populations. In particular, the primary aim of this study was to describe the tracking behavior of the app users and their overall observat

SUBMITTER: Symul L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6635432 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature