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  • Digital Health
  • Mobile Health (mHealth)
  • Behavioral Science

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  • Growing popularity of mHealth apps, but most lack clinical validation and evidence-based strategies.
  • Researchers face cost and technical barriers in developing and evaluating mHealth apps.
  • Need for accessible tools to translate lab-based methods to mobile platforms for quality program development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce Schema, an open-source, distributed, app-based platform for mHealth research.
  • Demonstrate Schema's flexibility and usefulness for researchers and participants.
  • Facilitate the development of evidence-based mHealth interventions and behavior monitoring.

Main Methods:

  • Schema platform architecture and design features.
  • Flexible scheduling, randomization, and diverse survey/media elements.
  • Distributed data storage supporting various research designs.

Main Results:

  • Platform supports cross-sectional surveys, ecological momentary assessment, RCTs, and micro-randomized interventions.
  • Demonstrates use cases for researchers and participants.
  • Provides a flexible and useful tool for mHealth research.

Conclusions:

  • Schema offers strengths for mHealth research development and evaluation.
  • Acknowledges platform limitations and calls for community support in technical development.
  • Encourages adoption and contribution to the Schema platform via GitHub.