Engagement With a Relaxation-Based Mobile Health Intervention for Perioperative Anxiety: Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Mixed Methods Study
Xinghui Yan, Afton L Hassett, Jennifer F Waljee, Mark W Newman, Sun Young Park, Rongqi Bei, Noelle E Carlozzi, Stefano Brini, Roghieh Nooripour, Urvashi Tandon · 2026
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Description
Xinghui Yan and co-authors follow surgical patients using a relaxation app, asking who actually engages with it and who benefits. Anxiety around surgery is common, and phone-based relaxation programs could help at scale, but engagement patterns were poorly documented. Nineteen patients with at least occasional anxiety used the MiCarePath app from ten days before elective surgery until four weeks after.
The study mixed app usage records, repeated anxiety and pain check-ins, and interviews at three points. Eleven patients said they built or improved relaxation self-management habits, while eight felt little benefit. The high-benefit group watched far more video, about 224 minutes more in total, and answered over seventy percent of the app's prompts, against about thirty-five percent in the low-benefit group. The authors distill design lessons for keeping surgical patients engaged through the whole perioperative window.
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| CREATOR | Xinghui Yan, Afton L Hassett, Jennifer F Waljee, Mark W Newman, Sun Young Park, Rongqi Bei, Noelle E Carlozzi, Stefano Brini, Roghieh Nooripour, Urvashi Tandon |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 71 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |