User Experience, Engagement, and Popularity in Mental Health Apps: Secondary Analysis of App Analytics and Expert App Reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

User experience and engagement are critical elements of mental health apps' abilities to support users. However, work examining the relationships among user experience, engagement, and popularity has been limited. Understanding how user experience relates to engagement with and popularity of mental health apps can demonstrate the relationship between subjective and objective measures of app use. In turn, this may inform efforts to develop more effective and appealing mental health apps and ensure that they reach wide audiences.

Objective

We aimed to examine the relationship among subjective measures of user experience, objective measures of popularity, and engagement in mental health apps.

Methods

We conducted a preregistered secondary data analysis in a sa

SUBMITTER: Kaveladze BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8844980 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature