Perx Health App Engagement and Medication Adherence for Older Adults

A 2026 study by Elyssa Wiecek analyzes real-world data from 250 users aged 65 and older using the Perx Health mobile app. The data includes metrics on medication adherence, app retention, and engagement with gamified features like leaderboards and streak tracking. The dataset is a supplementary file from the study, shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing medication adherence patterns based on reported median adherence of 95.0%.
• Studying app retention and engagement duration based on a median retention of 595.5 days.
• Investigating the use of gamified features like leaderboards and streak tracking among older adults.
• Comparing engagement metrics between older adults and a general user population as suggested in the results.

Strengths

• Includes data from 250 participants with a mean age of 70.1 years.
• Provides specific metrics: median medication adherence of 95.0% and median app retention of 595.5 days.
• Reports detailed engagement statistics, such as 62.5% of older adults using leaderboards.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 40.7 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the source, with 61.6% of participants based in Australia.

Provenance

Source

Elyssa Wiecek via figshare.

Collection Method

Retrospective observational analysis of real-world data from Perx Health app users.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 05:18:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and the United States.