The Mobile App Development and Assessment Guide (MAG): Delphi-Based Validity Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, there has been an exponential growth of mobile health (mHealth)-related apps. This has occurred in a somewhat unsupervised manner. Therefore, having a set of criteria that could be used by all stakeholders to guide the development process and the assessment of the quality of the apps is of most importance.

Objective

The aim of this paper is to study the validity of the Mobile App Development and Assessment Guide (MAG), a guide recently created to help stakeholders develop and assess mobile health apps.

Methods

To conduct a validation process of the MAG, we used the Delphi method to reach a consensus among participating stakeholders. We identified 158 potential participants: 45 patients as potential end users, 41 health care professionals, a

SUBMITTER: Llorens-Vernet P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7428935 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature