Insights into the quality of mobile health apps: preliminary results of an analysis of MARS scores
- Many mHelath applications have been developed, and the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) is a common tool for assessing them. This study aims to provide mean values for MARS scores found in recent literature. We systematically searched for literature in which MARS was used and analyzed them. MARS values for 5,920 applications from 215 studies were compiled. The mean MARS Quality Score is 3.51. The highest average score was achieved in the Functionality category (3.98), followed by Aesthetics (3.52), Information (3.33), Engagement (3.18) and Subjective (2.72). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to calculate average values for the five categories of the MARS and the MARS score based on such an extensive collection of data. The study shows that the overall quality of the applications is above the average value of 2.5.
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| Author: | Hendrik Lef, Walter Swoboda, Johannes Schobel, Daniel HieberORCiDGND, Felix Holl |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1196461 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/119646 |
| ISBN: | 9781643685335OPAC |
| ISSN: | 0926-9630OPAC |
| ISSN: | 1879-8365OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Digital health and informatics innovations for sustainable health care systems: proceedings of MIE 2024 |
| Publisher: | IOS Press |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
| Editor: | John Mantas, Arie Hasman, George Demiris, Kaija Saranto, Michael Marschollek, Theodoros N. Arvanitis, Ivana Ognjanović, Arriel Benis, Parisis Gallos, Emmanouil Zoulias, Elisavet Andrikopoulou |
| Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2024 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2025/03/18 |
| First Page: | 420 |
| Last Page: | 421 |
| Series: | Studies in Health Technology and Informatics ; 316 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3233/shti240438 |
| Institutes: | Medizinische Fakultät |
| Medizinische Fakultät / Universitätsklinikum | |
| Medizinische Fakultät / Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine und Spezielle Pathologie | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY-NC 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell (mit Print on Demand) |
