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Self-monitoring apps have the potential to facilitate prevention by measuring risk (eg, sun intensity) and encouraging protective behavior (eg, seeking shade).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our aim was to assess health care consumer preferences for sun protection with a self-monitoring app that tracks the duration and intensity of sun exposure and provides feedback on when and how to protect the skin.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We conducted an unlabeled discrete choice experiment with 8 unique choice tasks, in which participants chose among 2 app alternatives, consisting of 5 preidentified 2-level attributes (self-monitoring method, privacy control, data sharing with health care provides, reminder customizability, and costs) that were the result of a multistep and multistakeholder qualitative approach. Participant preferences, and thus, the relative importance of attributes and their levels were estimated using conditional logit modeling. Analyses consisted of 200 usable surveys, yielding 3196 observations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our respondents strongly preferred automatic over manually operated self-monitoring (odds ratio [OR] 2.37, 95% CI 2.06-2.72) and no cost over a single payment of 3 Swiss francs (OR 1.72, 95% CI 1.49-1.99). They also preferred having over not having the option of sharing their data with a health care provider of their choice (OR 1.66, 95% CI 1.40-1.97), repeated over single user consents, whenever app data are shared with commercial thirds (OR 1.57, 95% CI 1.31-1.88), and customizable over noncustomizable reminders (OR 1.30, 95% CI 1.09-1.54). While most participants favored thorough privacy infrastructures, the attribute of privacy control was a relatively weak driver of app choice. The attribute of self-monitoring method significantly interacted with gender and perceived personal usefulness of health apps, suggesting that female gender and lower perceived usefulness are associated with relatively weaker preferences for automatic self-monitoring.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Based on the preferences of our respondents, we found that the utility of a self-monitoring sun protection app can be increased if the app is simple and adjustable; requires minimal effort, time, or expense; and has an interoperable design and thorough privacy infrastructure. Similar features might be desirable for preventive health apps in other areas, paving the way for future discrete choice experiments. Nonetheless, to fully understand these preference dynamics, further qualitative or mixed method research on mobile self-monitoring-based sun protection and broader preventive mobile self-monitoring is required.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>RR2-10.2196\/16087<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2196\/18889","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]],"date-time":"2020-11-27T10:16:31Z","timestamp":1606472191000},"page":"e18889","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Self-Monitoring App Preferences for Sun Protection: Discrete Choice Experiment Survey Analysis"],"prefix":"10.2196","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6685-8275","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vasileios","family":"Nittas","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0620-5376","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Margot","family":"M\u00fctsch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8359-6177","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Julia","family":"Braun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7284-1317","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Milo Alan","family":"Puhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1010","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","unstructured":"TaylorKSilverLSmartphone Ownership is Growing Rapidly Around the World, but Not Always EquallyPew Research Center201902052019-11-08www.pewresearch.orghttps:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2019\/02\/05\/smartphone-ownership-is-growing-rapidly-around-the-world-but-not-always-equally\/"},{"key":"ref2","unstructured":"Measuring the Information Society Report 2015International Telecommunication Union20152019-11-18Genevahttps:\/\/www.itu.int\/en\/ITU-D\/Statistics\/Pages\/publications\/mis2015.aspx"},{"key":"ref3","unstructured":"PoushterJSmartphone Ownership and Internet Usage Continues to Climb in Emerging Economies But advanced economies still have higher rates of technology usePew Research Center20162019-11-18https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/global\/2016\/02\/22\/smartphone-ownership-and-internet-usage-continues-to-climb-in-emerging-economies\/"},{"key":"ref4","unstructured":"mHealth Economics 2017 \u2013 Current Status and Future Trends in Mobile HealthResearch2Guidance20172019-11-12https:\/\/research2guidance.com\/product\/mhealth-economics-2017-current-status-and-future-trends-in-mobile-health\/"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pmrj.2017.02.018"},{"key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2196\/11223"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMp1713180"},{"key":"ref8","unstructured":"About MelanomaMelanoma Research Alliance2019-12-12https:\/\/www.curemelanoma.org\/about-melanoma\/"},{"key":"ref9","unstructured":"ShapiroMJohnstonDWaldJMonDPatient-Generated Health Data - 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