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Quality Evaluation and Descriptive Analysis/Reviews of Multiple Existing Mobile Apps (363) Usability of Apps and User Perceptions of mHealth (902) mHealth for Wellness, Behavior Change and Prevention (2754) Behavior Change (655) Security and Privacy of mHealth and uHealth (116)

Published on in Vol 6, No 3 (2018): March

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/9069, first published .
Quality of Publicly Available Physical Activity Apps: Review and Content Analysis

Quality of Publicly Available Physical Activity Apps: Review and Content Analysis

Quality of Publicly Available Physical Activity Apps: Review and Content Analysis

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Paulina Bondaronek1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ghadah Alkhaldi2 Author Orcid Image ;   April Slee3 Author Orcid Image ;   Fiona L Hamilton1 Author Orcid Image ;   Elizabeth Murray1 Author Orcid Image
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