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. 2016 May 24;4(2):e47. doi: 10.2196/mhealth.5242

Table 3.

Coding frequencies by category.

Category Praise frequency, n (%) Criticism frequency, n (%) Recommendation frequency, n (%)
Content (overall)

Goal setting 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (5)

Information 12 (44) 3 (25) 2 (10)

Monitoring-drinks diary 5 (18) 8 (67) 13 (62)

Monitoring- graph 3 (11) 0 (0) 5 (24)

Monitoring-general (praise/criticism) 4 (15) 0 (0) 0 (0)

Positive reinforcement 0 (0) 1 (8) 0 (0)

Reminders 1 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0)

Rewards 1 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0)

Tone 1 (4) 0 (0) 0 (0)

General praise/criticism 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Total 27 (100) 12 (100) 21 (101)
Functionality (overall)

Data-entering 0 (0) 1 (3) 0 (0)

Data-losing 0 (0) 4 (13) 0 (0)

Data-saving 0 (0) 3 (9) 0 (0)

Data-importing or exporting 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (66)

Description of bug 0 (0) 18 (56) 0 (0)

Processing speed 0 (0) 3 (9) 1 (33)

General praise/criticism 8 (100) 3 (9) 0 (0)
Total 8(100) 32 (99) 3 (99)
Esthetics (overall)

Color 2 (50) 0 (0) 0 (0)

Text 0 (0) 1 (33) 0 (0)

General praise/criticism 2 (50) 2 (66) 0 (0)
Total 4 (100) 3 (99) 0 (0)
General comments 18(100) 6 (100) 0 (0)