Incorporating guidelines for use of mobile technologies in health research and practice.
This commentary aims to create initial recommendations to guide researchers' decisions on the development and use of mobile technologies for public health research. We recommend that mobile technologies for public health research should be scalable and sustainable; draw on social, psychological and/or behavioral theoretical models; be able to be integrated with multiple communication devices; incorporate social network and/or geographic metrics and take a community-based participatory approach to development and implementation. All of these approaches are discussed.
Department of Family Medicine, University of California, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA, USA sdyoung@mednet.ucla.edu.
Sean D
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Young
Department of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Ian W
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Holloway
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services (CHIPTS), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Dallas
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Swendeman
D040421:Cell Phone; D034201:Computers, Handheld; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011634:Public Health; D015980:Public Health Practice; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards
Guidelines; Health research; New technologies; Use standards; mHealth