Journal article
"Let's get wasted!" and other apps: Characteristics, acceptability, and use of alcohol-related smartphone applications
ER Weaver, DR Horyniak, R Jenkinson, P Dietze, MSC Lim
Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth | JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2709
Abstract
Background: Smartphone applications ("apps") offer a number of possibilities for health promotion activities. However, young people may also be exposed to apps with incorrect or poor quality information, since, like the Internet, apps are mostly unregulated. Little is known about the quality of alcohol-related apps or what influence they may have on young people's behavior. Objective: To critically review popular alcohol-related smartphone apps and to explore young people's opinions of these apps, their acceptability, and use for alcohol-related health promotion. Methods: First, a content analysis of 500 smartphone apps available via Apple iTunes and Android Google Play stores was conducted...
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Funding Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge the focus group participants for their time and Chloe Robson and for her contribution to data collection. We also gratefully acknowledge the Patron Offending and Intoxication on the Night Time Entertainment Districts (POINTED) investigators for providing data to develop profiles. This project was funded by the Australian Rechabite Foundation. ML is being funded by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Sidney Sax Early Career Researcher Fellowship. DH is supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award and receives additional funding through the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence into Injecting Drug Use. PD is supported by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. The authors would also like to acknowledge the contribution to this work of the Victorian Operational Infrastructure Support Program received by the Burnet Institute.