Electronic Health Record-Based Recruitment and Retention and Mobile Health App Usage: Multisite Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To address the obesity epidemic, there is a need for novel paradigms, including those that address the timing of eating and sleep in relation to circadian rhythms. Electronic health records (EHRs) are an efficient way to identify potentially eligible participants for health research studies. Mobile health (mHealth) apps offer available and convenient data collection of health behaviors, such as timing of eating and sleep.

Objective

The aim of this descriptive analysis was to report on recruitment, retention, and app use from a 6-month cohort study using a mobile app called Daily24.

Methods

Using an EHR query, adult patients from three health care systems in the PaTH clinical research network were identified as potentially eligible, invited electronically to

SUBMITTER: Coughlin JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9233254 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature