Menstrual Cycle Tracking Applications and the Potential for Epidemiological Research: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature.

3区医学 Current Epidemiology Reports Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Epub Date: 2021-02-20 DOI:10.1007/s40471-020-00260-3

Joelle S Schantz, Claudia S P Fernandez, Z Jukic Anne Marie

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Purpose of review: We reviewed published studies on menstrual cycle tracking applications (MCTAs) in order to describe the potential of MCTAs for epidemiologic research.

Recent findings: A search of PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus for MCTA literature yielded 150 articles. After exclusions, there were 49 articles that addressed the primary interest areas: 1) characteristics of MCTA users in research, 2) reasons women use or continue using MCTAs, 3) accuracy of identifying ovulation and utility at promoting and preventing pregnancy, and 4) quality assessments of MCTAs across several domains.

Summary: MCTAs are an important tool for the advancement of epidemiologic research on menstruation. MCTA studies should describe the characteristics of their user-base and missing data patterns. Describing the motivation for using MCTAs throughout a user's life and validating the data collected should be prioritized in future research.

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月经周期跟踪应用与流行病学研究的潜力：文献综述。

综述目的：我们回顾了已发表的有关月经周期跟踪应用程序（MCTA）的研究，以描述MCTA在流行病学研究方面的潜力：在PubMed、Web of Science和Scopus上搜索月经周期跟踪应用程序的文献，共获得150篇文章。经排除后，有 49 篇文章涉及主要关注领域：总结：MCTA 是推进月经流行病学研究的重要工具。MCTA 研究应描述其用户群的特征和数据缺失模式。在未来的研究中，应优先考虑描述用户一生中使用MCTA的动机以及验证所收集的数据。

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