{"id":141,"date":"2022-01-05T11:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ntrw\/?page_id=141"},"modified":"2022-05-25T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T02:58:18","slug":"menstrual-apps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/ntrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Menstrual Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"

MENSTRUAL APP RESEARCH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Menstrual health is important to the wellbeing of individuals and societies. New technologies such as period-tracking apps can help to understand our cycles, but to use these apps effectively <\/span>we need to know their strengths and limitations.<\/p>\n

Our research answers thi<\/span>s question through interrelated projects:<\/p>\n

MAUS: Menstrual App User Study<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MAST: Menstrual App Symptom Tracking<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

MAPP-MI: Menstrual Apps as Medical Information<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Leading these projects is Associate Professor Bryndl Hohmann-Marriott in the School of Social Sciences at Otago University, together with Associate Professor Jane Girling in the Department of Anatomy at Otago University. We work with an awesome team of colleagues and research assistants that are here at Our People<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve just finished our initial data collection for the Menstrual Apps as Medical Information project, and our preliminary findings are coming together.<\/p>\n

Key messages:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n