Author(s): Carrière K; Siemers N; Thapar S; Knäuper B;

Background: Over fifty percent of individuals with overweight and obesity are emotional eaters. Emotional eating can be theorized as a conditioned response to eat for reasons that are not associated with physiological hunger. We conducted this proof-of-concept study to gather evidence that a mobile app that delivers a common non-meditative mindfulness exe ...

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Author(s): Gharaat M; Sharbaf M; Zamani B; Hamou-Lhadj A;

In recent years, the number of smartphone users has increased dramatically. These users download millions of apps and use them for various services. Due to the significant demand for mobile apps, developers often seek faster development methods and more effective tools and techniques to generate these apps. Many of these apps are location-based apps in wh ...

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Author(s): Yang L; Kuang A; Xu C; Shewchuk B; Singh S; Quan H; Zeng Y;

Background: In recent years, mHealth has increasingly been used to deliver behavioral interventions for disease prevention and self-management. Computing power in mHealth tools can provide unique functions beyond conventional interventions in provisioning personalized behavior change recommendations and delivering them in real time, suppo ...

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Author(s): Trépanier LCM; Lamoureux É; Bjornson SE; Mackie C; Alberts NM; Gagnon MM;

The past decade marks a surge in the development of mobile apps used to digitally track and monitor aspects of personal health, including menstruation. Despite a plethora of menstruation-related apps, pain and symptom management content available in apps has not been systematically examined. The objective of this study was to evaluate app characteristics, ...

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Author(s): Bouzo V; Plourde H; Beckenstein H; Cohen TR;

Keenoa™ is a novel Canadian diet application (app) currently used by Canadian dietitians to collect diet-related data from clients. The goal of this study was to evaluate Keenoa™ based on user feedback and compare it to a conventional pen and paper method. One hundred and two participants were recruited and randomly assigned to record their diets using th ...

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