Peter Jaeho Cho, Jaehan Jeremy Yi, Ethan Ho, Yen Hai Dinh, Mobashir Hasan Shandhi, Aneesh Patil, Leatrice Martin, Geetika Singh, John Owens, Brinnae Bent, Geoffrey Steven Ginsburg, Matthew Smuck, Veronica Palacios-Grandes, Christopher Woods, Ryan Shaw, Jessilyn Pearl Dunn
Digital health technologies such as smartphones and wearable devices promise to revolutionize disease prevention, detection, and treatment. Recently, there has been a surge of digital health studies where data is collected through a Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) approach, in which participants who already own a specific technology may voluntarily sign up for the study and provide their digital health data. BYOD study design accelerates the collection of data on a larger number of participants than cohort design because researchers are not limited in the study population size based on the number of devices afforded by their budget or the number of people familiar with the technology...
December 15, 2021: JMIR MHealth and UHealth