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Evaluation and Research Methodology for mHealth (193) Research Instruments, Questionnaires, and Tools (540)

Published on in Vol 8, No 3 (2020): March

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/14479, first published .
The German Version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS-G): Development and Validation Study

The German Version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS-G): Development and Validation Study

The German Version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS-G): Development and Validation Study

Authors of this article:

Eva-Maria Messner1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yannik Terhorst1 Author Orcid Image ;   Antonia Barke2 Author Orcid Image ;   Harald Baumeister1 Author Orcid Image ;   Stoyan Stoyanov3 Author Orcid Image ;   Leanne Hides4 Author Orcid Image ;   David Kavanagh5 Author Orcid Image ;   Rüdiger Pryss6 Author Orcid Image ;   Lasse Sander7 Author Orcid Image ;   Thomas Probst8 Author Orcid Image
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