Long-Term Effectiveness of a Smartphone App for Improving Healthy Lifestyles in General Population in Primary Care: Randomized Controlled Trial (Evident II Study)

Luis Garcia-Ortiz   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Jose Ignacio Recio-Rodriguez   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Cristina Agudo-Conde   ¹ , RN ;   María Carmen Patino-Alonso   ^{1, 4} , PhD ;   Jose-Angel Maderuelo-Fernandez   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Irene Repiso Gento   ⁵ , MD ;   Elisa Puigdomenech Puig   ⁶ , PhD ;   Natividad Gonzalez-Viejo   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Maria Soledad Arietaleanizbeaskoa   ⁸ , RN ;   Yolanda Schmolling-Guinovart   ⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Manuel Angel Gomez-Marcos   ^{1, 10 *} , MD, PhD ;   Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez   ^{1, 10 *} , MD, PhD ;   EVIDENT Investigators Group   ^{11 *}

¹ Primary Health Care Research Unit, Institute of Biomedical Research of Salamanca, La Alamedilla Health Center, Health Service of Castilla y León, Salamanca, Spain

² Department of Biomedical and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

³ Department of Nurse and Physiotherapy, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

⁴ Department of Statistics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

⁵ Valladolid Rural I Health Center, Health Service of Castilla y León, Valladolid, Spain

⁶ Health Quality and Assessment Agency of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

⁷ Torre Ramona Health Center, Health Service of Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

⁸ Primary Health Care Research Unit of Bizkaia, Basque Health Service-Osakidetza, Bilbao, Spain

⁹ Río Tajo Health Center, Health Service of Castilla-La Mancha, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Talavera de la Reina, Spain

¹⁰ Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

¹¹ Spanish Research Network for Preventive Activities and Health Promotion in Primary Care, Salamanca, Spain

*these authors contributed equally