Chow Philip I
Center for Behavioral Health and Technology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 Apr 20;8(4):e15561. doi: 10.2196/15561.
Behavioral health researchers are increasingly recognizing the potential of mobile phone apps to deliver empirically supported treatments. However, current options for developing apps typically require large amounts of expertise or money.
This paper aims to describe a pragmatic do-it-yourself approach for researchers to create and pilot an Android mobile phone app using existing survey software (eg, Qualtrics survey platform).
This study was conducted at an academic research center in the United States focused on developing and evaluating behavioral health technologies. The process outlined in this paper was derived and condensed from the steps to building an existing app intervention, iCanThrive, which was developed to enhance mental well-being in women cancer survivors.
This paper describes an inexpensive, practical process that uses a widely available survey software, such as Qualtrics, to create and pilot a mobile phone intervention that is presented to participants as a Web viewer app that is downloaded from the Google Play store. Health researchers who are interested in using this process to pilot apps are encouraged to inquire about the survey platforms available to them, the level of security those survey platforms provide, and the regulatory guidelines set forth by their institution.
As app interventions continue to gain interest among researchers and consumers alike, it is important to find new ways to efficiently develop and pilot app interventions before committing a large amount of resources. Mobile phone app interventions are an important component to discovering new ways to reach and support individuals with behavioral or mental health disorders.
行为健康研究人员越来越认识到手机应用程序在提供经实证支持的治疗方面的潜力。然而，目前开发应用程序的选择通常需要大量的专业知识或资金。
本文旨在描述一种实用的自助方法，供研究人员使用现有的调查软件（如Qualtrics调查平台）创建并试运行一款安卓手机应用程序。
本研究在美国的一个学术研究中心进行，该中心专注于行为健康技术的开发和评估。本文概述的过程源自并浓缩了构建现有应用程序干预措施iCanThrive的步骤，该干预措施旨在提高女性癌症幸存者的心理健康水平。
本文描述了一个低成本、实用的过程，该过程使用广泛可用的调查软件（如Qualtrics）来创建并试运行一款手机干预程序，该程序以从谷歌应用商店下载的网络查看器应用程序的形式呈现给参与者。鼓励有兴趣使用此过程试运行应用程序的健康研究人员了解他们可用的调查平台、这些调查平台提供的安全级别以及其机构制定的监管指南。
随着应用程序干预措施在研究人员和消费者中越来越受到关注，在投入大量资源之前，找到新的方法来高效开发和试运行应用程序干预措施非常重要。手机应用程序干预措施是发现接触和支持行为或心理健康障碍患者新方法的重要组成部分。
