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Peer Review of “A Local Community-Based Social Network for Mental Health and Well-being (Quokka): Exploratory Feasibility Study”

Peer Review of “A Local Community-Based Social Network for Mental Health and Well-being (Quokka): Exploratory Feasibility Study”

Peer Review of “A Local Community-Based Social Network for Mental Health and Well-being (Quokka): Exploratory Feasibility Study”

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    This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper “A Local Community-Based Social Network for Mental Health and Well-being (Quokka): Exploratory Feasibility Study.”


    This research [1] conducted an exploratory study of local community-based interventions and evaluated the intervention’s potential for promotion of local, social, and unfamiliar activities as they pertain to healthy habits. I like how the authors built the motivation of this research. The introduction is well written and a good list of background information is provided. I am not sure what Quokka is, if it already exists or was just developed for the purpose of the study. I would like to see some background information on this application. I also would appreciate if the authors looked at their findings through the lens of prior work. How similar or different is this research to prior work?

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    1. Shih C, Pudipeddi R, Uthayakumar A, Washington P. A local community-based social network for mental health and well-being (Quokka): exploratory feasibility study. JMIRx Med 2021;2(4):e24972 [https://med.jmirx.org/2021/4/e24972/] [CrossRef]

    Edited by E Meinert; This is a non–peer-reviewed article. submitted 29.09.21; accepted 29.09.21; published 27.10.21

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    ©Ashwag Alasmari. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 27.10.2021.

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