Mobile app rating scale: A new tool for assessing the quality of health mobile apps

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Stoyanov, Stoyan R ^a,b   Hides, Leanne ^a,b   Kavanagh, David J ^a,b   Zelenko, Oksana ^a,b   Tjondronegoro, Dian ^a,b   Mani, Madhavan ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; E health; Mental health; Mobile application; Mobile health (mhealth); Rating; Scale development; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091525878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3422     Document Type: Article

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