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. 2022 May 6;10(5):e33735. doi: 10.2196/33735

Table 1.

Information collected from identified apps.

Information type Description
App name Name of the app on the market
Description Description of the app provided by the developers
Downloads Download frequency; orders of magnitude: 500, 1000, 5000, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000, 500,000, 1,000,000, 5,000,000, 10,000,000, 50,000,000, and 100,000,000. For screening and selection, the logarithm to the base 10 of the download numbers was used because most download information was available only in orders of magnitude, as explained in the Methods (Screening and Selection section)
Rating User rating. Mean rating (between 1 and 5; 1: lowest, 5: highest)
Title Title of the app
Specific search terms All keywords that categorize the app
Developer Developer’s name
Rating count Number of ratings the app has received from users. For screening and selection, the logarithm to the base 10 of the rating frequency was used
Language (default) Languages that have been provided by the app
Market status Whether the app has been published on the market
Website The app’s website
Interactive Advertising Bureau category Interactive Advertising Bureau categories are an industry-standard taxonomy for content categorization used by the database