UNITI Mobile -- EMI-Apps for a Large-Scale European Study on Tinnitus
Carsten Vogel, Johannes Schobel, Winfried Schlee, Milena, Engelke, R\"udiger Pryss

TL;DR
This paper presents the development and implementation of mobile apps for a large-scale European study on tinnitus, aiming to evaluate mobile technology's validity and usefulness in heterogeneous treatment contexts across countries.
Contribution
It introduces novel mobile intervention apps for tinnitus research and discusses their features and potential to enhance future mobile health studies in a European setting.
Findings
Development of two native intervention apps for UNITI study
Assessment of app features' validity and usefulness
Insights into cross-country differences in mobile health interventions
Abstract
More and more observational studies exploit the achievements of mobile technology to ease the overall implementation procedure. Many strategies like digital phenotyping, ecological momentary assessments or mobile crowdsensing are used in this context. Recently, an increasing number of intervention studies makes use of mobile technology as well. For the chronic disorder tinnitus, only few long-running intervention studies exist, which use mobile technology in a larger setting. Tinnitus is characterized by its heterogeneous patient's symptom profiles, which complicates the development of general treatments. In the UNITI project, researchers from different European countries try to unify existing treatments and interventions to cope with this heterogeneity. One study arm (UNITI Mobile) exploits mobile technology to investigate newly implemented interventions types, especially within the…
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