Costa Figueiredo Mayara, Huynh Thu, Takei Anna, Epstein Daniel A, Chen Yunan
Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Informatics and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
JAMIA Open. 2021 Mar 4;4(1):ooab013. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooab013. eCollection 2021 Jan.
Fertility is becoming increasingly supported by consumer health technologies, especially mobile apps that support self-tracking activities. However, it is not clear whether the apps support the variety of goals and life events of those who menstruate, especially during transitions between them.
Thirty-one of the most popular fertility apps were evaluated, analyzing data from three sources: the content of app store pages, app features, and user reviews.
Results suggest that fertility apps are designed to support specific life goals of people who menstruate, offering several data collection features and limited feedback options. However, users often desire holistic tracking that encompasses a variety of goals, life events, and the transitions among them.
These findings suggest fertility patients can benefit more from holistic self-tracking and provide insights for future design of consumer health technologies that better support holistic fertility tracking.
Fertility apps have the potential to support varied experiences of people who menstruate. But to achieve that, apps need to expand their support by offering ways for more users to perform holistic, personalized, and personally meaningful tracking, so they can derive long-term benefit from the data they collect.
生育越来越多地得到消费健康技术的支持，尤其是支持自我跟踪活动的移动应用程序。然而，尚不清楚这些应用程序是否支持月经来潮者的各种目标和生活事件，尤其是在这些事件之间的过渡阶段。
对31款最受欢迎的生育应用程序进行了评估，分析了来自三个来源的数据：应用商店页面内容、应用功能和用户评论。
结果表明，生育应用程序旨在支持月经来潮者的特定生活目标，提供多种数据收集功能和有限的反馈选项。然而，用户通常希望进行全面跟踪，涵盖各种目标、生活事件以及它们之间的过渡。
这些发现表明，生育患者可以从全面的自我跟踪中获益更多，并为未来更好地支持全面生育跟踪的消费健康技术设计提供见解。
生育应用程序有潜力支持月经来潮者的不同经历。但要实现这一点，应用程序需要通过为更多用户提供进行全面、个性化且具有个人意义的跟踪的方式来扩大其支持范围，以便他们能够从所收集的数据中获得长期益处。
