Young Sean D, Holloway Ian W, Swendeman Dallas
Department of Family Medicine, University of California, 10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Department of Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Int Health. 2014 Jun;6(2):79-81. doi: 10.1093/inthealth/ihu019. Epub 2014 Apr 8.
This commentary aims to create initial recommendations to guide researchers' decisions on the development and use of mobile technologies for public health research. We recommend that mobile technologies for public health research should be scalable and sustainable; draw on social, psychological and/or behavioral theoretical models; be able to be integrated with multiple communication devices; incorporate social network and/or geographic metrics and take a community-based participatory approach to development and implementation. All of these approaches are discussed.
本评论旨在提出初步建议，以指导研究人员在开发和使用移动技术进行公共卫生研究方面的决策。我们建议，用于公共卫生研究的移动技术应具有可扩展性和可持续性；借鉴社会、心理和/或行为理论模型；能够与多种通信设备集成；纳入社交网络和/或地理指标，并采用基于社区的参与式方法进行开发和实施。所有这些方法都将进行讨论。
