Weight Management Apps in Saudi Arabia: Evaluation of Features and Quality.
Dalal M AlshathriAbeer S AlhumaimeedyGhada Al-HudhudAseel AlsalehSara Al-MusharafGhadeer S AljuraibanPublished in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2020)
App users desired a feature that allows them to communicate with a specialist, which is a missing in the available free apps. Despite the large number and accessibility of weight management apps, the quality and features of most are variable. It can be concluded from six sigma results that passing the mean does not ensure that the quality is consistently distributed through all app quality properties and Mobile App Rating Scale and evidence-based strategies do not give developers an indication of the acceptance of their apps by mobile users. This finding stresses the importance of reevaluating the passing criterion, which is ≥50% for designing an effective app.