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ABSTRACT Objective Smartphone applications (apps) are proliferating and health-related apps are particularly popular. The aim of this study was to identify, characterize, and evaluate the clinical utility of apps designed either for people with eating disorders or for eating disorder professionals. Method A search of the major app stores identified 805 potentially relevant apps, of which 39 were primarily designed for people with eating disorders and five for professionals. Results The apps for people with eating disorders had four main functions. Most common was the provision of advice, the quality of which ranged from sound to potentially harmful. Five apps included self-assessment tools but only two used methods that would generally be viewed as reliable.

Four apps had the self-monitoring of eating habits as a major feature. Entering information into these apps could be accomplished with varying degrees of ease, but viewing it was more difficult. One app allowed the transfer of information between patients and clinicians. Discussion The enthusiasm for apps outstrips the evidence supporting their use. Given their popularity, it is suggested that clinicians evaluate app use as part of routine assessment. The clinical utility of the existing apps is not clear. Some are capable of tracking key features over time, but none has the functions required for analytic self-monitoring as in cognitive behavioral treatments.

The full potential of apps has yet to be realized. Specialized apps could be designed to augment various forms of treatment, and there is the possibility that they could deliver an entire personalized intervention. © 2015 The Authors. International Journal of Eating Disorders published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

(Int J Eat Disord 2015; 48:1038–1046) • • Introduction “Apps” (shorthand for applications) are specialized self-contained software programs designed for use on smartphones and other mobile devices such as tablet computers. Table 1. Eating disorder apps and their source Apps Designed Primarily for People With an Eating Disorder Apps Designed for Professionals Excluded Apps • a Including duplicates across stores. • b One app was excluded as it failed to download. • c Each app is counted only once (i.e., duplicates have been excluded). Amazon 10 1 28 Blackberry 3 0 140 GooglePlay 32 3 557 iTunes 47 5 30 Nokia 13 0 13 Windows 30 0 26 Total 39 5 781 Popularity of the Apps Download data could be obtained on 41 of the 44 identified apps. The apps differed greatly in their number of downloads (see Table ).

Thirty-three (80.5%) had been barely used ( ≤5,000 downloads) whereas two (4.9%) had been downloaded over 50,000 times. Table 2. Apps designed primarily for people with eating disorders (as of 31 July, 2014) App Target User Group Downloads ( N) User Rating (1–5) Number of User Ratings ( N) Functions Provision of Information Self-Assessment Self-Monitoring Provision of Advice or Treatment Tracking Analysis • Notes: AN, anorexia nervosa; BED, binge eating disorder; BN, bulimia nervosa; EDs, all eating disorders; NA, Not available.

Iso Container Corner Castings For Pontoon. • a Poor quality overall. • b Moderate quality overall.

• c Good quality overall. • d If there was a rating on more than one app store, the rating from the store with the greatest number of ratings was used. A rating of 1 is low and a rating of 5 is high. • e Apps with no entries had functions other than those listed in the table. • f Pro-anorexia apps. Anorexia Books AN 1,000–5,000 2.5 4 Anorexia Study AN 2,700 4.5 5 Anorexia Tips, Free Dev.

AN NA 2.5 4 Anorexia Tips, InfoApps247 AN 1,200 3.5 8 Anorexia Tips, Minh T Trans AN 3,300 2.6 23 Anorexia Tips, The Best of Best Apps AN 5,000 3.5 16 Anorexia Understood AN NA 1 1 Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Test EDs 2,900 3.5 5 Appetite Antidote BED and BN. • 1 Statista. Number of apps available in leading app stores 2014. Available at:. Accessed on July 31, 2014. • 2 Xu Q, Erman J, Gerber A, Mao Z, Pang J, Venkataraman S. Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps.

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