Possibilities, usage and needs of an app-based health prevention among seafarers

Luciano Arslan, Dorothee Dengler, Lukas Belz, Felix Alexander Neumann, Birgit-Christiane Zyriax, Volker Harth and Marcus Oldenburg

PLOS ONE, 2024, vol. 19, issue 11, 1-18

Abstract: The present study analyses the technical requirements as well as the user behaviour of seafarers for an app-based health prevention, including apps for wellness, prevention, fitness, medical care and mental well-being. In a maritime field study 976 seafarers on 65 merchant ships participated in the survey carried out with a questionnaire. The vast majority (98.4%) of the respondents had a mobile device on board. 52.5% stated to already have downloaded a health app, with a higher proportion among the officers (adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR) 1.67; 95% CI (1.13–2.50)). The most common reasons for downloading this kind of app were activity tracking (74.8%), weight loss (41.8%) and exercise (41.0%). Officers downloaded apps significantly more often for activity tracking (p

Date: 2024
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