JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

The ubiquity of smartphones and mobile devices in the general population presents an unprecedented opportunity for preventative health. Not surprisingly, the use of electronic health resources (i.e., eHealth resources) accessed through mobile devices in clinical trials is becoming more prevalent; the selection, screening, and collation of quality eHealth resources is necessary to clinical trials using these technologies. However, the constant creation and turnover of new eHealth resources can make this task difficult. There may be value in adopting practical and pragmatic approaches to helping researchers and clinicians identify and disseminate e-resources. The study aimed to create a set of guidelines (i.e., a checklist) to aid the members of the Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) Canada trial – a preconception randomized controlled clinical trial to prevent child obesity – to assist their efforts in searching, identifying, screening, and including selected eHealth resources for participant use in the study intervention. This checklist may be useful to other researchers and practitioners developing similar interventions.