scholarly journals User Perspectives of Mood-Monitoring Apps Available to Young People: Qualitative Content Analysis

10.2196/18140 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. e18140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Widnall ◽  
Claire Ellen Grant ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Lauren Cross ◽  
Sumithra Velupillai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
User Reviews ◽  
Social Community ◽  
App Store ◽  
Mobile Health Apps ◽  
Technical Features

Background Mobile health apps are increasingly available and used in a clinical context to monitor young people’s mood and mental health. Despite the benefits of accessibility and cost-effectiveness, consumer engagement remains a hurdle for uptake and continued use. Hundreds of mood-monitoring apps are publicly available to young people on app stores; however, few studies have examined consumer perspectives. App store reviews held on Google and Apple platforms provide a large, rich source of naturally generated, publicly available user reviews. Although commercial developers use these data to modify and improve their apps, to date, there has been very little in-depth evaluation of app store user reviews within scientific research, and our current understanding of what makes apps engaging and valuable to young people is limited. Objective This study aims to gain a better understanding of what app users consider useful to encourage frequent and prolonged use of mood-monitoring apps appropriate for young people. Methods A systematic approach was applied to the selection of apps and reviews. We identified mood-monitoring apps (n=53) by a combination of automated application programming interface (API) methods. We only included apps appropriate for young people based on app store age categories (apps available to those younger than 18 years). We subsequently downloaded all available user reviews via API data scraping methods and selected a representative subsample of reviews (n=1803) for manual qualitative content analysis. Results The qualitative content analysis revealed 8 main themes: accessibility (34%), flexibility (21%), recording and representation of mood (18%), user requests (17%), reflecting on mood (16%), technical features (16%), design (13%), and health promotion (11%). A total of 6 minor themes were also identified: notification and reminders; recommendation; privacy, security, and transparency; developer; adverts; and social/community. Conclusions Users value mood-monitoring apps that can be personalized to their needs, have a simple and intuitive design, and allow accurate representation and review of complex and fluctuating moods. App store reviews are a valuable repository of user engagement feedback and provide a wealth of information about what users value in an app and what user needs are not being met. Users perceive mood-monitoring apps positively, but over 20% of reviews identified the need for improvement.

scholarly journals User Perspectives of Mood-Monitoring Apps Available to Young People: Qualitative Content Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Widnall ◽  
Claire Ellen Grant ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Lauren Cross ◽  
Sumithra Velupillai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
User Reviews ◽  
Social Community ◽  
App Store ◽  
Mobile Health Apps ◽  
Technical Features

BACKGROUND Mobile health apps are increasingly available and used in a clinical context to monitor young people’s mood and mental health. Despite the benefits of accessibility and cost-effectiveness, consumer engagement remains a hurdle for uptake and continued use. Hundreds of mood-monitoring apps are publicly available to young people on app stores; however, few studies have examined consumer perspectives. App store reviews held on Google and Apple platforms provide a large, rich source of naturally generated, publicly available user reviews. Although commercial developers use these data to modify and improve their apps, to date, there has been very little in-depth evaluation of app store user reviews within scientific research, and our current understanding of what makes apps engaging and valuable to young people is limited. OBJECTIVE This study aims to gain a better understanding of what app users consider useful to encourage frequent and prolonged use of mood-monitoring apps appropriate for young people. METHODS A systematic approach was applied to the selection of apps and reviews. We identified mood-monitoring apps (n=53) by a combination of automated application programming interface (API) methods. We only included apps appropriate for young people based on app store age categories (apps available to those younger than 18 years). We subsequently downloaded all available user reviews via API data scraping methods and selected a representative subsample of reviews (n=1803) for manual qualitative content analysis. RESULTS The qualitative content analysis revealed 8 main themes: accessibility (34%), flexibility (21%), recording and representation of mood (18%), user requests (17%), reflecting on mood (16%), technical features (16%), design (13%), and health promotion (11%). A total of 6 minor themes were also identified: notification and reminders; recommendation; privacy, security, and transparency; developer; adverts; and social/community. CONCLUSIONS Users value mood-monitoring apps that can be personalized to their needs, have a simple and intuitive design, and allow accurate representation and review of complex and fluctuating moods. App store reviews are a valuable repository of user engagement feedback and provide a wealth of information about what users value in an app and what user needs are not being met. Users perceive mood-monitoring apps positively, but over 20% of reviews identified the need for improvement.

scholarly journals Patterns and Trends in Contemporary Canadian Verse-Novels for Young People

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Beverley A. Brenna ◽  
Yina Liu ◽  
Shuwen Sun
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Reluctant Readers ◽  
Verse Novel

This qualitative content analysis identified patterns and trends in a contemporary set of Canadian verse-novels for young people. Twenty-two books were located in our search for titles published between 1995 and 2016, and many of these emerged as award-winners in various contexts including the Governor General’s Award for children’s literature (text). Dresang’s notion of Radical Change, adapted for this interrogation, illuminated particular elements of these societal artifacts worthy of notice. While studies have occurred regarding textual forms or formats and reader characteristics, specific work with the verse-novel and its use with struggling and reluctant readers is limited, with professional articles appearing in place of research-oriented discussions. Scrutiny of available verse-novels is important as it opens a door for explorations of these resources with participants in classroom settings.  

scholarly journals Construction of personal brands in beauty vlogging

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zemfira K. Salamova
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Physical Resources

The popularity of digital content about make-up and self-care has been steadily growing during the recent years. Most of its producers and consumers are young people. The article analyzes three Russian YouTube-channels (“Arina Viscera”, “ND Beauty Channel” and “Gev Mua”) to study how their hosts construct their personal brands in the context of beauty content production. The article employs the technique of discourse analysis and a qualitative content analysis. The research results show that the beauty vlog format provides users with various ways of presenting themselves to the audience as they can choose different ways of demonstrating their expertise, comparing themselves to viewers, manifesting their passion for makeup and showing emotional and physical resources that are used in the production.

scholarly journals Analysing the experience of motherhood among adolescents living with HIV

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cássia Ritt ◽  
Marco Daniel Pereira ◽  
Daniela Centenaro Levandowski
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Adolescent Motherhood ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Over Time

Aim Adolescent motherhood is considered a condition of vulnerability that can be further complicated by the presence of HIV infection, but little is known about how adolescent mothers experience this process. The aim of this study was to analyse the experience of motherhood among adolescents living with HIV. Method Seven mothers (15-21 years) recruited in specialized services in Porto Alegre/Brazil, whose babies’ ages ranged from four to six months, were interviewed. Interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Results The qualitative content analysis of the interviews revealed a positive vision of motherhood, related to satisfaction with the maternal role and personal fulfilment. Pregnancy and motherhood served to these adolescents as an encouragement for self-care. The mothers’ difficulties were related to HIV and to the repercussions of this clinical condition, especially feelings of frustration and incompleteness of motherhood on the impossibility of breastfeeding, as well as fear facing the risk of MTCT. Conclusion Future research of longitudinal design and with larger samples will be important to extend the knowledge of the specificities of this experience over time for young people of different ages and social backgrounds.

Content and User Engagement of Tweets about Hikikomori: A Mixed-Methods Study of Social Withdrawal in Japan (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Pereira-Sanchez ◽  
Miguel Angel Alvarez-Mon ◽  
Toru Horinouchi ◽  
Ryo Kawagashi ◽  
Marcus PJ Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Percentage Points ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Predicted Probability

BACKGROUND Hikikomori is a form of severe social withdrawal that is particularly prevalent in Japan. Social media posts offer insights into public perceptions of mental health conditions, and also may inform strategies to identify, engage with care, and support hard-to-reach patient populations such as individuals affected by hikikomori. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify types of contents prevalent on Twitter related to hikikomori in Japanese language, and to assess the users’ engagement elicited by those contents. METHODS We conducted a mixed-methods analysis of a random sample of 4,940 Japanese tweets from February-August 2018 with the hashtag (#hikikomori). Qualitative content analysis included examination of the text of tweets, development of a codebook, and categorization of tweets into relevant codes. For quantitative analysis (n=4,859 tweets), we used bivariate and multivariate logistic regression models, adjusted for multiple comparisons, and estimated predicted probabilities of tweets receiving engagement (likes or retweets). RESULTS Our content analysis identified nine codes relevant to tweets about hikikomori: ‘personal anecdotes’, ‘social support’, ‘marketing’, ‘advice’, ‘stigma’, ‘educational opportunities’, ‘refuge (“ibasho”)’, ‘employment opportunities’, and ‘medicine and science’. Tweets about ‘personal anecdotes’ were most common (present in 56% of the tweets), followed by ‘social support’ (18.6%) and ‘marketing’ (12.8%). In adjusted models, tweets coded as ‘stigma’ had a lower predicted probability of receiving likes (-33 percentage points; 95% CI, -42 to -23 percentage points; p < .001) and retweets (-11 percentage points; 95% CI, -18 to -4 percentage points; p <. 001), ‘personal anecdotes’ had a lower predicted probability of receiving retweets (-8 percentage points; 95% CI, -14 to -3 percentage points; p = 0.002), ‘marketing’ had lower predicted probability of receiving likes (-13 percentage points; 95% CI, -21 to -6 percentage points; p < .001), and ‘social support’ had higher predicted probability for retweets (+15 percentage points; 95% CI, +6 to +24 percentage points; p = 0.001), compared with all tweets without each of these codes. CONCLUSIONS Japanese tweets about hikikomori reflect a unique array of topics, many of which have not been identified in prior research and vary in their likelihood of receiving engagement. Tweets often contain personal stories of hikikomori, suggesting the potential to identify individuals with hikikomori through Twitter.

scholarly journals Building MedVenture – A mobile health application to improve adolescent medication adherence – Using a multidisciplinary approach and academic–industry collaboration

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 205520762110198
Author(s):  
Pooja Mehta ◽  
Susan L Moore ◽  
Sheana Bull ◽  
Bethany M Kwan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
Industry Collaboration

Objective Mobile health (mHealth) tools are increasingly used to support medication adherence yet few have been designed specifically for the pediatric population. This paper describes the development of a medication adherence application ( MedVenture) using the integration of patient and healthcare provider input, health behavior theory, and user engagement strategies for adolescents with chronic gastrointestinal disease. Methods MedVenture was created by a multidisciplinary research team consisting of a gastroenterologist, a social health psychologist, software developers, and digital health researchers. Healthcare providers and adolescent patients were interviewed to identify barriers to medication adherence, explore ways that technologies could best support medication adherence for both patients and providers, and determine user requirements and core design features for a digital health tool. Intervention mapping was used to match themes from qualitative content analysis to known efficacious adherence strategies, according to a conceptual framework based on self-determination theory. Iterative design with review by the research team and two rounds of user testing informed the final prototype. Results Three themes were identified from content analysis: 1) lack of routine contributes to nonadherence, 2) adolescents sometimes purposefully forgo medications, and 3) healthcare providers would prefer a tool that promotes patient self-management rather than one that involves patient-provider interaction. These findings, combined with evidence-based adherence and user engagement strategies, resulted in the development of MedVenture – a game-based application to improve planning and habit formation. Conclusions Academic-industry collaboration incorporating stakeholders can facilitate the development of mobile health tools designed specifically for adolescents with chronic disease.

scholarly journals Russian Youth Forums: Sites of Managed Youth Empowerment

Young ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 110330882199093
Author(s):  
Kristiina Silvan
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Youth Empowerment ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
The Government

In the 2010s Russia, government-organized local, regional and national youth forums have become major sites for state-youth interaction. These typically weeklong summer camps are organized across Russia, attracting up to one million participants annually. Although the forums have diverse foci, they are all formal platforms of youth participation, aimed at young people engaging in ‘compliant’ forms of activism. Drawing from qualitative content analysis of official reports and media accounts combined with participant observation and interview data, this article analyses the forums as a case of youth policy in an authoritarian political setting. It finds that the government treats youth as a ‘problematic resource’. Moreover, while the forums’ agenda is defined by the policymakers, young people acquire and apply agency to navigate and negotiate the official agenda and re-signify it to respond to their interests. This process, it is argued, has an empowering effect regardless of the constraining authoritarian setting.

scholarly journals Imagining the desirable homeland: Nation-related belonging and social media use of young Kazakhstani Russians

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Marina Zhir-Lebed
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Civic Belonging

Recent events, such as the Ukrainian crisis, political protests in Belarus, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict’s escalation, have clearly demonstrated that the so-called ‘national question’ has remained an acute issue in the post-Soviet space. Being surrounded by Russia’s neo-imperial calls, but also by the dominating titular culture in the country of their current residence, ethnic Russians, and their national belonging arouse the interest of academia. Simultaneously, the tremendous expansion of information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as the popularity of social media in the ex-Soviet republics, opens new opportunities for the conception of a national image, especially for young people. Hence, the studying of ethnic and civic belonging in the post-Soviet context requires an additional technological viewpoint. While Cyberspace in Kazakhstan remains state-controlled, Russia employs social media to unite its compatriots around the Russian national idea. However, the Internet may also support alternative identity constructions, grassroots movements, and the search for new national belongingness among ethnic minorities. How do young Kazakhstani Russians define their national belonging in the light of their social media usage? Which homeland do they imagine, and which role does Instagram play in this process? To answer these questions, I conducted explorative research, which was based upon a qualitative content analysis of 22 semi-structured interviews with young Kazakhstani Russians and a quantitative content analysis of local Instagram accounts. Interviewing ethnic Russians from big Kazakhstani cities demonstrated that these young people avoid formal national categories and creatively combine their multiple nation-related identities and belongings. Although social media content from Russia is present in their social media feeds, Ka-zakhstani Russians did not express any particular attachment to their historical “homeland.” Instead, they defined themselves as Kazakhstanis and advocated for ethnocultural pluralism and innovation inside and beyond Kazakhstan’s national borders. Their openness towards global cooperation is also reflected in their use of social media. At the same time, a close connection to a local space was widely relevant among Kazakhstani Russians. Posting Instagram stories from their everyday life, communicating with local friends, and consuming local news and event announcements, immersed young Kazakhstani Russians into the local city-related environment. Among the whole geographical and thematic content variety, following one or another urban account was an essential part of Kazakh-stani Russians’ social media use. As the Instagram analysis proved, textual and visual content on city-related accounts has blurred the boundaries between different discursive paradigms of national identity existing in Kazakhstan and presented the country in a positive light. In addition to other usage patterns, this provides an opportunity for these young people to construct a particular image of Kazakhstan, which helps them to find their social identity gratification and maintain positive self-esteem. As a result, their sense of belonging to Kazakhstan grows, allowing them to manage their multiple nation-related memberships while creating new categories beyond any formal definitions.

scholarly journals Fungsi Media Online Sebagai Media Literasi Budaya Bagi Generasi Muda

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Gita Aprinta
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Ground Theory ◽  
Context Analysis

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scholarly journals Exploring Cultural Differences in Game Reception: JRPGs in Germany and Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Brückner ◽  
Yukiko Sato ◽  
Shuichi Kurabayashi ◽  
Ikumi Waraga
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
User Reviews ◽  
User Comments ◽  
First Results ◽  
Online Stores ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

In this paper we present the first results of an ongoing research project focused on examining the European reception of Japanese video games, and we compare it with the reception in Japan. We hope to contribute towards a better understanding of how player perception and evaluation of a game is influenced by cultural background. Applying a grounded theory approach, we conducted a qualitative content analysis of articles from German video gamewebsites, user comments responding to articles, as well as Japanese and German user reviews from the respective Amazon online stores and Steam. Focusing on the reception of three Japanese RPGs, our findings show that considerable differences exist in how various elements of the games are perceived between cultures. We also briefly discuss certain lexical differences in the way players write about games, indicating fundamental differences in how Japanese and German players talk (and think) about games.

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