Development and validation of the user version of the mobile application rating scale (uMARS)

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Stoyanov, Stoyan R ^a,b   Hides, Leanne ^a,b   Kavanagh, David J ^a,b   Wilson, Hollie ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; App evaluation; App rating; App trial; Australia; Cellphone; Cognitive behavioral therapy; Depression; Depressive disorder; e therapy; eHealth; Ehealth; Emental health; End user; Evidence informed; Internet; MARS; Mental health; mHealth; mHealth evaluation; mHealth implementation; mhealth trial; Mobile application; Mobile health; Online; Randomized controlled trial; RCT; reliability; Research translation; Smartphone; Telemedicine; User testing; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 85091872897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.5849     Document Type: Article

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