Published on in Vol 6, No 5 (2019): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12617, first published .
Association Between Improvement in Baseline Mood and Long-Term Use of a Mindfulness and Meditation App: Observational Study

Association Between Improvement in Baseline Mood and Long-Term Use of a Mindfulness and Meditation App: Observational Study

Association Between Improvement in Baseline Mood and Long-Term Use of a Mindfulness and Meditation App: Observational Study

Argus J Athanas   1 * , BSc ;   Jamison M McCorrison   2, 3 * , BSc ;   Susan Smalley   4 , PhD ;   Jamie Price   5 , JD ;   Jim Grady   5 , BA ;   Paul Wehner   6 , BA ;   Julie Campistron   5 , MBA ;   Nicholas J Schork   1, 3, 7, 8 , PhD

1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

2 Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

3 J Craig Venter Institute, San Diego, CA, United States

4 Department of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

5 Stop, Breathe & Think, Los Angeles, CA, United States

6 Positive Place Inc, The Villages, FL, United States

7 The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Department of Quantitative Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, United States

8 The City of Hope/Translational Genomics Research Institute IMPACT Center, Duarte, CA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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