Human Behavior with Mobile Health: Smartphone/ Devices, Apps and Cognition

Donald M. Hilty* and Steven Chan

Human Behavior with Mobile Health: Smartphone/ Devices, Apps and Cognition.

Mobile health communications smartphones and other devices (SP/D) used for data transport, computing and integration are a force in business, entertainment and health communities. and social media are growing exponentially via the X, Millennial/Y and Z generations.
They are delivering healthcare anytime/anywhere and surpassing geographical, cost, temporal
and organizational barriers.

This movement is consistent with not only patient-centered care, but participatory medicine, in which patients are responsible drivers of their health with physicians3 according to the Institute of Medicine. Regular engagement with these devices can lead to diminished  attentional capacity – producing shorter attention spans and “scatter-brained” tendencies among those who are most invested with the devices – and worrying some that children and adolescents’ attention spans are shorter.

Our ability to contemplate the future through cortical function and we have higher levels of happiness and lower levels of stress than at other times. How we learn is dependent on our personal experience and professional training, and reflection with evaluation of our strengths and weaknesses is a key part of development.

The problems in researching the use of SP/Ds include trouble employing true experimental methods with random assignment, literature based on topical and cross-sectional investigation
of momentary rather than long-term impact for SP/D users, disparities in technology users’ backgrounds, biased (self) reporting of behaviors and a limited “half life” of research questionnaires.

While many aspects of this new media landscape can be positive, others are problematic. Positive aspects of technology for youth include speaking more freely, learning/knowledge gains,
communication/engagement with others and creative exploration. Youth also use technology for depression, obesity and/or suicidal thinking, but the evidence base.

Psychol Cogn Sci Open J. 2018; 4(2): 36-47. doi: 10.17140/PCSOJ-4-141

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