Japanese Version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS): Development and Validation

Kazumichi Yamamoto   ^{1, 2 *} , MD, PhD ;   Masami Ito   ^{1 *} , RN ;   Masatsugu Sakata   ¹ , MA ;   Shiho Koizumi   ³ , BA ;   Mizuho Hashisako   ⁴ , PhD ;   Masaaki Sato   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Stoyan R Stoyanov   ⁶ , MRes ;   Toshi A Furukawa   ¹ , MD, PhD

¹ Departments of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

² Research Unit, Institute for Airway Disease, Takarazuka, Japan

³ Department of Health Informatics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan

⁴ Department of Sociology, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan

⁵ Organ Transplantation Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

⁶ Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

*these authors contributed equally