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While mHealth apps have been made with single features for SCD, there is limited understanding of using an mHealth app with a more comprehensive set of features that could engage adults with SCD, depending on what features they prefer and need to engage and empower them in living with their disease.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n We evaluated the usage of an mHealth app with various features, including pain tracking, quizzes for patient-facing guidelines, pain and asthma action plans, and goal setting.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Adults with SCD were enrolled at 2 sickle cell centers between 2018 and 2022 as part of a 6-month feasibility randomized controlled trial with participants completing surveys at baseline and 6 months. Participants were randomized into receiving either an mHealth app and booklet with patient-facing guidelines or a booklet with the guidelines alone. The mHealth app comprised web pages with patient-facing guideline material and a Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) project. The REDCap project included a personal profile, a pain tracker, goal setting, quizzes about the guidelines, and pain or asthma action plans. The REDCap project also included the ability to send daily text messages at a time they chose, which contained a message they could create and a link to their profile. Outcomes included SCD-specific knowledge and acute health care utilization (emergency room visits and hospitalizations). We evaluated the usage of these different features and relationships with baseline variables, each other, and study outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Approximately 75% (50\/67) of the enrolled and randomized participants completed all the study components, and 100% (26\/26) of the participants who were randomized to the mHealth app arm and completed the study used the mHealth app. Further, 15\/30 (50%) participants used multiple features. Baseline sickle cell knowledge and female gender were associated with more usage of pain diary (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n =.04) and mission (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n =.046) features, respectively. While not significant, mission completion was associated with lower hospitalizations (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n =.06).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Adults with SCD engaged differently with an mHealth app with multiple features. As this study was not focused on one part of our app, engagement with features in this app was entirely patient-driven, which may demonstrate the expected real-world use of an mHealth app in this population. A multipurpose app can help engage participants in self-management strategies through different features and potentially improve outcomes.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2196\/67906","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,4,10]],"date-time":"2025-04-10T04:00:08Z","timestamp":1744257608000},"page":"e67906-e67906","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Usage of a Multipurpose mHealth App Among Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: Randomized Controlled Trial"],"prefix":"10.2196","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1916-6521","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert M","family":"Cronin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-2541-1970","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nives","family":"Quaye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9278-9237","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-6953-6199","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kristina","family":"Landes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6656-7745","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lori E","family":"Crosby","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0484-5903","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adetola A","family":"Kassim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0574-1604","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michael R","family":"DeBaun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2343-208X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrick M","family":"Schnell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1010","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,5]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"R1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"77","DOI":"10.1002\/ajh.21570","article-title":"The number of people with sickle-cell disease in the United States: national and state estimates","volume":"85","author":"Brousseau","journal-title":"Am J Hematol"},{"issue":"4","key":"R2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"642","DOI":"10.1002\/pbc.22069","article-title":"Health care utilization and expenditures for privately and publicly insured children with sickle cell disease in the United States","volume":"53","author":"Mvundura","journal-title":"Pediatr Blood Cancer"},{"key":"R3","unstructured":"Steiner CA Miller JL . 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