Table 4.
Search result half-life (t½), app half-life, and the proportion of apps still available to download from the app stores at the end of the study, grouped by whether they were clinically relevant to depression.
| Platform | Clinical relevance subgroup | Search result | Available to download | ||
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t½ | Apps remaining | t½ | Apps remaining |
| Android | All | 130 days | 37.8% | >9 months | 74.2% |
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Relevant | >9 months | 57.9% | >9 months | 65.9% |
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Not relevant | 56 days | 17.2% | >9 months | 83.8% |
| iOS | All | >9 months | 82.7% | >9 months | 90.0% |
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Relevant | >9 months | 80.7% | >9 months | 87.8% |
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Not relevant | >9 months | 84.4% | >9 months | 91.9% |