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Published on in Vol 6 , No 11 (2018) :November

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/10123, first published .
To Prompt or Not to Prompt? A Microrandomized Trial of Time-Varying Push Notifications to Increase Proximal Engagement With a Mobile Health App

To Prompt or Not to Prompt? A Microrandomized Trial of Time-Varying Push Notifications to Increase Proximal Engagement With a Mobile Health App

To Prompt or Not to Prompt? A Microrandomized Trial of Time-Varying Push Notifications to Increase Proximal Engagement With a Mobile Health App

Authors of this article:

Niranjan Bidargaddi 1 Author Orcid Image ;   Daniel Almirall 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Susan Murphy 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Inbal Nahum-Shani 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Michael Kovalcik 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Timothy Pituch 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Haitham Maaieh 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Victor Strecher 4, 5 Author Orcid Image
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