A review and content analysis of national apps for COVID-19 management using Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS).

IF 2.5 4区医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES Informatics for Health & Social Care Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Epub Date: 2020-11-09 DOI:10.1080/17538157.2020.1837838

Simin Salehinejad, Sharareh R Niakan Kalhori, Sadrieh Hajesmaeel Gohari, Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy, Farhad Fatehi

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Abstract

The expansion of mobile health apps for the management of COVID-19 grew exponentially in recent months. However, no study has evaluated these apps. The objective of this study was to develop a reliable measure and rate the quality of COVID-19 mobile health apps, to eventually provide a roadmap for future mHealth app development. In this study, we used COVID-related keywords to identify apps for iOS and Android devices. 13 apps (13.5% of the total number of apps identified) were selected for evaluation. App quality was assessed independently using MARS by two reviewers. Search queries yielded a total of 97 potentially relevant apps, of which 13 met our final inclusion criteria. Kendall's coefficient of concordance value for the inter-rater agreement was 0.93 (p = .03). COVID-19 GOV PK app had the highest average MARS score (4.7/5), and all of the apps had acceptable MARS scores (> 3.0). This study suggests that most COVID-related apps meet acceptable criteria for quality, content, or functionality, and they must highlight esthetic and interesting features for overall quality improvement to be welcomed by users.

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基于移动应用程序评分量表(MARS)的国家COVID-19管理应用程序综述及内容分析

近几个月来，用于管理COVID-19的移动健康应用程序呈指数级增长。然而，没有研究评估过这些应用程序。本研究的目的是开发一种可靠的措施和评估COVID-19移动健康应用程序的质量，最终为未来的移动健康应用程序开发提供路线图。在本研究中，我们使用与covid相关的关键词来识别iOS和Android设备上的应用程序。13个应用程序(占识别的应用程序总数的13.5%)被选中进行评估。应用质量由两名评论者使用MARS独立评估。搜索结果总共产生了97个潜在的相关应用，其中13个符合我们的最终纳入标准。评价间一致性的肯德尔协调系数值为0.93 (p = 0.03)。COVID-19 GOV PK应用程序的MARS平均得分最高(4.7/5)，所有应用程序的MARS得分均为可接受的(> 3.0)。这项研究表明，大多数与新冠病毒相关的应用程序在质量、内容或功能方面都符合可接受的标准，它们必须突出美观和有趣的功能，以使整体质量得到提高，从而受到用户的欢迎。

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Informatics for Health & Social Care 医学-卫生保健

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期刊介绍： Informatics for Health & Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus. The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems. Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social and ethical aspects. Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation are particularly welcome. Informatics in Health & Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data is collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalised, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience.