A Novel Educational Control Group Mobile App for Meditation Interventions: Single-Group Feasibility Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphone ownership is becoming ubiquitous among US adults, making the delivery of health interventions via a mobile app (ie, mobile health [mHealth]) attractive to many researchers and clinicians. Meditation interventions have become popular and have been delivered to study participants via mobile apps to improve a range of health outcomes in both healthy adults and those with chronic diseases. However, these meditation mHealth interventions have been limited by a lack of high-quality control groups. More specifically, these studies have lacked consistency in their use of active, time-matched, and attention-matched control groups.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to beta test a novel health education podcast control condition delivered via a smartphone app

SUBMITTER: Huberty J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7404006 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature