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Application of smartphone technologies in disease monitoring: A systematic review

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posted on 2024-06-15, 10:44 authored by JC Moses, Sasan AdibiSasan Adibi, SM Shariful Islam, N Wickramasinghe, Lemai NguyenLemai Nguyen
Technologies play an essential role in monitoring, managing, and self-management of chronic diseases. Since chronic patients rely on life-long healthcare systems and the current COVID-19 pandemic has placed limits on hospital care, there is a need to explore disease monitoring and management technologies and examine their acceptance by chronic patients. We systematically examined the use of smartphone applications (apps) in chronic disease monitoring and management in databases, namely, Medline, Web of Science, Embase, and Proquest, published from 2010 to 2020. Results showed that app-based weight management programs had a significant effect on healthy eating and physical activity (p = 0.002), eating behaviours (p < 0.001) and dietary intake pattern (p < 0.001), decreased mean body weight (p = 0.008), mean Body Mass Index (BMI) (p = 0.002) and mean waist circumference (p < 0.001). App intervention assisted in decreasing the stress levels (paired t-test = 3.18; p < 0.05). Among cancer patients, we observed a high acceptance of technology (76%) and a moderately positive correlation between non-invasive electronic monitoring data and questionnaire (r = 0.6, p < 0.0001). We found a significant relationship between app use and standard clinical evaluation and high acceptance of the use of apps to monitor the disease. Our findings provide insights into critical issues, including technology acceptance along with regulatory guidelines to be considered when designing, developing, and deploying smartphone solutions targeted for chronic patients.

History

Journal

Healthcare (Switzerland)

Volume

9

Article number

ARTN 889

Pagination

1 - 19

Location

Switzerland

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

2227-9032

eISSN

2227-9032

Language

English

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

7

Publisher

MDPI