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Recruitment and retention in clinical trials continues to be a critical challenge and mHealth trials may present both unique challenges and opportunities. To our knowledge, this is the first study to describe a systematic evaluation followed by changes and further evaluation to recruitment, use of the mHealth application, adherence to study protocol, and retention during an mHealth clinical trial. Future work should adopt and explicitly study these processes to optimize both enrollment and retention in these types of trials to preserve validity and reliability of research results.
Pfammatter et al. (Wed,) studied this question.