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. 2019 Mar 28;7(3):e12181. doi: 10.2196/12181

Table 2.

Definition and calculation of engagement measures.

Engagement measures Definition
Retentiona

Completers Participants who came to the final sessions

Noncompleters Participants who did not come to the final sessions (dropout attrition)

Retention rate Percentage of completers out of all 55 participants
Fit.healthy.me app usage

Length of usage The mean number of days of usage

Frequency of usage The mean number of times participants used the app and each feature

Nonusage attrition Participants who did not use the app at all in the last month of the study
Fitbit Flex 2 tracker usage

Length of usage The mean number of days a valid step count was logged

A valid day of step count Having at least ten hours of wear time

Wear time Calculated by subtracting nonwear time from 24 hours

Nonwear time Defined if no step counts were detected over a period of at least sixty continuous minutes, allowing for 2 min of counts between 0 and 100 [49,50]

aAdapted from Eysenbach (2005) [43].