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    The document summarizes a student's experience using the Tangerine app for their health sciences course final project. The student's goals for the project were to drink more water, walk more, and have a more positive outlook. While the Tangerine app helped the student track their goals and progress, it had some limitations including requiring a paid subscription for full features and lacking an online community component. Overall, the student felt the app was easy to use and helped them achieve their self-care goals, and would recommend it for short-term use.

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    The document summarizes a student's experience using the Tangerine app for their health sciences course final project. The student's goals for the project were to drink more water, walk more, and have a more positive outlook. While the Tangerine app helped the student track their goals and progress, it had some limitations including requiring a paid subscription for full features and lacking an online community component. Overall, the student felt the app was easy to use and helped them achieve their self-care goals, and would recommend it for short-term use.

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    The document summarizes a student's experience using the Tangerine app for their health sciences course final project. The student's goals for the project were to drink more water, walk more, and have a more positive outlook. While the Tangerine app helped the student track their goals and progress, it had some limitations including requiring a paid subscription for full features and lacking an online community component. Overall, the student felt the app was easy to use and helped them achieve their self-care goals, and would recommend it for short-term use.

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    The document summarizes a student's experience using the Tangerine app for their health sciences course final project. The student's goals for the project were to drink more water, walk more, and have a more positive outlook. While the Tangerine app helped the student track their goals and progress, it had some limitations including requiring a paid subscription for full features and lacking an online community component. Overall, the student felt the app was easy to use and helped them achieve their self-care goals, and would recommend it for short-term use.

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    Final mHealth Application Project

    Yesenia Becerra

    Department of Health Science

    Health 302

    Blair Barker MPH

    December 2, 3022
    For my final project, the app I chose was Tangerine app. The app is used for health care

    goals and helps in your self care journey. This app helps you mentally and physically, which is

    the main reason I chose for the project in order to help achieve my goals. My goals were to drink

    more water, walk more, and think more positively. I chose the goal of having a more positive

    outlook on life because of the many benefits it has on your day to day life. For example, it helps

    increase your lifespan, you develop greater resistance to illnesses, get better coping skills during

    hardships and times of stress and overall better psychological and physical well-being.( Mayo

    Clinic, 2022) I had a great time using the app these past few months and it definitely has its pros

    and cons.

    Like many apps available, Tangerine did have many pros and some cons. An issue that

    was something different within the app was that in order to view better options, different icons/

    journals, better stats and results you needed to upgrade the app. In order to upgrade the app, you

    needed to purchase it with a yearly rate of $29.99 or $4.99 for just the month. Even though it was

    not too much out of pocket expense, I would have liked to get a free trial for a month compared

    to only 7 days . Another issue within the app was that there was no online app community and no

    websites linked to the app with scientific based information in regards to giving you health goals

    tips. I would have liked to see the app have this. Especially because in today’s market I feel that

    including forums, help and advice columns makes it an even better app for everyone to share and

    network. By enabling in app communities, this allows for sharing and among other things, such

    as effective content sharing which promotes community involvement. This would also have live

    streams, podcasts, and videos which can benefit an online community with similar self care

    goals. (Apple, 2022)


    The app definitely did help me in many ways reach my self care goals. I liked how the

    app would keep on reminding me daily to drink water. I was able to personalize this if the app

    got too annoying so I only set myself 2 daily reminders to drink 2 cups of water each time.

    Thanks to this I realized I went from drinking one cup to four daily. My steps were also tracked

    daily. Unfortunately I was not able to see the process of it for previous weeks but I feel with the

    reminders it helped motivate me. For my positive self care journey, I was able to write down my

    feelings everyday with the gratitude journal which I was able to go back and read. The app made

    it simple in choosing emoji to put how I felt. I also had a release anger journal which I thought

    was helpful instead of putting it on others. Looking back I do feel like I have changed my

    outlook to a more positive view. The app did help in my goals. Tangerine did let me create and

    track habits while reminding me to do them and when completed it would help celebrate my

    achievements. .I would not use this probably for more than 6 months, mostly short term use. I

    would recommend this to someone.

    This app did not take too much of my day. I was getting used to it sending me reminders.

    Writing down my thoughts and feelings took less than ten minutes daily. I felt like I was getting

    used to writing down my feelings and if I missed a day I felt like I missed an important

    assignment due date. According to a study performed by the usage of Health apps, it was

    concluded that by 'growing' with the user and adjusting to changing operating environments,

    health apps can gain. (Anderson, et al, 2016)


    The Tangerine app did a good job in helping with my self care goals. I would highly

    recommend it to any age group as it is user friendly and super simple to use. Anyone wanting to

    work on self care goals would enjoy this easy simple app. App helped me track my mental

    health and was able to send me daily reminders of my goals. This app did help me mentally and

    physically, which is the main reason I chose for the project in order to help achieve my goals. I

    would recommend this for a short term use and if they would like long term then it would be best

    to purchase the app for the additional upgrades the app includes.

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    References

    1. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (2022, February 3). Positive
    thinking: Stop negative self-talk to reduce stress. Mayo Clinic. Retrieved December 1,
    2022, from https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/in-
    depth/positive-thinking/art-
    20043950#:~:text=The%20health%20benefits%20of%20positive%20thinking&text=Low
    er%20rates%20of%20depression,psychological%20and%20physical%20well%2Dbeing
    2. Anderson K, Burford O, Emmerton L (2016) Mobile Health Apps to Facilitate Self-Care:
    A Qualitative Study of User Experiences. PLOS ONE 11(5): e0156164.
    https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156164

    3. OU, B. (2020, January 18). Tangerine: Self-care & goals. App Store. Retrieved
    December 1, 2022, from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tangerine-self-care-
    goals/id1468882685

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