Identifying App-Based Meditation Habits and the Associated Mental Health Benefits: Longitudinal Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Behavioral habits are often initiated by contextual cues that occur at approximately the same time each day; so, it may be possible to identify a reflexive habit based on the temporal similarity of repeated daily behavior. Mobile health tools provide the detailed, longitudinal data necessary for constructing such an indicator of reflexive habits, which can improve our understanding of habit formation and help design more effective mobile health interventions for promoting healthier habits.

Objective

This study aims to use behavioral data from a commercial mindfulness meditation mobile phone app to construct an indicator of reflexive meditation habits based on temporal similarity and estimate the association between temporal similarity and meditation app users' per

SUBMITTER: Stecher C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8603170 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature