Perx Health App Engagement and Medication Adherence for Older Adults

Elyssa Wiecek's dataset provides real-world evidence on mobile health app usage among 250 adults aged 65 and older. The data, last updated in April 2026, includes metrics on medication adherence, app retention, and engagement with gamified features. It originates from a retrospective observational analysis of Perx Health app users in Australia and the United States.

Use Cases

• Analyzing medication adherence patterns based on reported median adherence of 95.0%.
• Studying app retention based on the reported median retention period of 595.5 days.
• Investigating engagement with gamified features based on reported usage of leaderboards (62.5%) and streak tracking (26.5%).
• Comparing digital health engagement between geographic cohorts based on the reported 61.6% Australia-based user sample.

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 for specific app features, such as leaderboard usage at 62.5%.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is very small at 13.9 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Elyssa Wiecek via figshare.

Collection Method

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

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 05:18:09; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia and the United States.