Demographic Imbalances Resulting From the Bring-Your-Own-Device Study Design.

ABSTRACT: Digital health technologies, such as smartphones and wearable devices, promise to revolutionize disease prevention, detection, and treatment. Recently, there has been a surge of digital health studies where data are collected through a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) approach, in which participants who already own a specific technology may voluntarily sign up for the study and provide their digital health data. BYOD study design accelerates the collection of data from a larger number of participants than cohort design; this is possible because researchers are not limited in the study population size based on the number of devices afforded by their budget or the number of people familiar with the technology. However, the BYOD study design may not support the collection of data from a represent

SUBMITTER: Cho PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9034431 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature