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