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Table 3 App characteristics

From: Patients’ adherence to smartphone apps in the management of bipolar disorder: a systematic review

App (study)

Version

Type

Phone

Notifications

Psychoeducation (Type)

Collection of passive data (Type)

Feedback (Type)

Sessions in a day

Number of items evaluated in a session

Adherence Characteristics

No Name (Til et al. 2020)

 

Self-monitoring + wearable (Fitbit)

Personal

No

No

Yes (Physical activity, sleep and heart rate measured with a wearable device)

Yes (Graphical feedback)

2a

6

Completion Rate: 81.8%

MONARCA (Faurholt-Jepsen et al. 2014)

Original

Self-monitoring

Loaned

No

No

Yes (speech duration, social activity, physical activity, and cell tower ID)

No

1

10

88.0%b

Faurholt-Jepsen et al. 2015)

Upgraded

Self-monitoring

Loaned

Yes

No

No

Yes (Clinical feedback loop)

1

11

93.0%b,c

Faurholt-Jepsen et al. 2020)

Upgraded

Self-monitoring

Personal or loaned

No

No

Yes (Phone usage, Social activity, Physical activity, Mobility)

Yes (Clinical feedback loop)

1

10

Activity rate: 72.6%

Stanislaus et al. 2020)

Upgraded

Self-monitoring

Personal or loaned

Yes

No

No

No

1

2

Median of use: 107 days (IQR 157)

PRISM (Depp et al. 2015)

 

Self-monitoring and evidence-based intervention

Loaned

Yes

No

No

Yes (Graphical Feedback)

2a

9

Activity rate: 65.0%

Moodzoom (Tsanas et al. 2016),

 

Self-monitoring

NS

No

No

No

No

1

6

Activity rate: 81.9%c

No Name (Schwartz et al. 2016)

 

Self-monitoring

Loaned

Yes

No

No

No

2

5

Activity rate: 79.0%

Myexperience (Wenze et al. 2016)

 

Ecological momentary intervention including self-monitoring

Loaned

Yes

Yes (Messages)

No

Yes (Messages)

2

11

Activity rate 58.0%

SIMPLe (Hidalgo-Mazzei et al. 2016)

Original

Self-monitoring

Personal

Yes

Yes (Messages)

No

Yes (graphical feedback and messages)

1

5

Activity rate: 85.5%

Hidalgo-Mazzei et al. 2018)

Upgraded

Self-Monitoring

Personal

Yes

Yes (Messages)

No

Yes (graphical feedback and messages) °

1

5

Median of use: 60 days. (IQR = 7)

No Name (Wenze et al. 2014)

 

Self-monitoring

Loaned (PDA)

Yes

Yes (Messages)

No

Yes (messages)

2

16

Activity rate: 91.6%

SIMBA (Beiwinkel et al. 2016)

 

Self-monitoring

Loaned

Yes

No

Yes (Physical activity and social communication)

No

1

2

55.7%c

  1. IQR Inter quartile range, PDA Personal digital assistant
  2. aOnly one session a day taken in account for adherence
  3. bUndefined adherence characteristics
  4. cCalculated relative to active patients only addition of a weekly complementary session