Hayriye Gülec and David Šmahel's latest research focused on adolescents who use so-called mHealth apps, or, in other words, apps that monitor the user's health. Using a representative sample of Czech adolescents, they found that more than half of the respondents use mHealth apps. What are their characteristics? Read today's blog!
We examined the characteristics of adolescents who use mobile health (mHealth) apps to monitor health in a nationally representative sample of Czech adolescents.
The findings revealed that:
Future research is required to determine how adolescents’ use of mHealth apps might be related to their health outcomes and behaviors longitudinally.
How to cite this study?
Gulec, H., & Smahel, D. (2022). Individual and Parental Factors of Adolescents’ mHealth App Use: Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Study. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 10(12), e40340. https://doi.org/10.2196/40340 
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