RT Journal Article
T1 Quality Assessment of Health-apps using a Public Agency Quality and Safety Seal. The Appsaludable Case
A1 Gessa Perera, Ana
A1 Sancha Dionisio, María Pilar
A1 Jiménez Jiménez, María Amor
K1 Mobile applications
K1 Web-scrapping
K1 Perceived quality
K1 Accredited quality
K1 Perceived quality
K1 Accredited quality
AB Standards and validation practices regarding mobile health apps need to be established to ensure their proper use and integration into medical practice. This paper proposes an innovative and integrative approach to examine and compare the quality of a certified health mobile applications set. A double classification framework (verified and perceived quality) is proposed and validated to evaluate the quality of 22 verified health mobile apps, particularly to understand whether these apps provide the service demanded by its users. Evaluation of verified quality was based on a certification public program. To analysis user satisfaction, we used content analysis to examine and extract words and expressions contained in online reviews (1,574 reviews were analyzed). The R language was used to scrape data and to perform all statistical analyses. The results did not confirm a significant relationship between both classifications (p > .05). However, the requirements with the highest degree of compliance ("design and relevance" and "quality and safety") of the app accreditation program were the best rated by the users of the apps in their comments. Reflections derived from this paper represent an important contribution to the knowledge base in the expanding research area of mobile health.
PB Springer
SN 0148-5598
SN 0148-5598 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27562
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/27562
LA eng
NO Gessa, A., Sancha, P. & Jiménez, A. Quality Assessment of Health-apps using a Public Agency Quality and Safety Seal. The Appsaludable Case. J Med Syst 45, 73 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-021-01748-1
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026