Efficacy of mobile health care in patients undergoing fixed orthodontic treatment: A systematic review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun‐Mi Choi ◽  
Bo‐young Park ◽  
Hie‐Jin Noh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Orthodontic Treatment ◽  
Mobile Health Care

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Self-Management of Hypertension in Adults Using Mobile Health: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

10.2196/17776 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. e17776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ran Li ◽  
Ning Liang ◽  
Fanlong Bu ◽  
Therese Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Narrative Synthesis ◽  
Management Behavior ◽  
Mhealth Intervention

Background Effective treatment of hypertension requires careful self-management. With the ongoing development of mobile technologies and the scarcity of health care resources, mobile health (mHealth)–based self-management has become a useful treatment for hypertension, and its effectiveness has been assessed in many trials. However, there is a paucity of comprehensive summaries of the studies using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Objective This systematic review aimed to measure the effectiveness of mHealth in improving the self-management of hypertension for adults. The outcome measures were blood pressure (BP), BP control, medication adherence, self-management behavior, and costs. Methods A systematic search was conducted using 5 electronic databases. The snowballing method was used to scan the reference lists of relevant studies. Only peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published between January 2010 and September 2019 were included. Data extraction and quality assessment were performed by 3 researchers independently, adhering to the validation guideline and checklist. Both a meta-analysis and a narrative synthesis were carried out. Results A total of 24 studies with 8933 participants were included. Of these, 23 studies reported the clinical outcome of BP, 12 of these provided systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) data, and 16 articles focused on change in self-management behavior and medication adherence. All 24 studies were included in the narrative synthesis. According to the meta-analysis, a greater reduction in both SBP and DBP was observed in the mHealth intervention groups compared with control groups, −3.78 mm Hg (P<.001; 95% CI −4.67 to −2.89) and −1.57 mm Hg (P<.001; 95% CI −2.28 to −0.86), respectively. Subgroup analyses showed consistent reductions in SBP and DBP across different frequencies of reminders, interactive patterns, intervention functions, and study duration subgroups. A total of 16 studies reported better medication adherence and behavioral change in the intervention groups, while 8 showed no significant change. Six studies included an economic evaluation, which drew inconsistent conclusions. However, potentially long-term financial benefits were mentioned in all economic evaluations. All studies were assessed to be at high risk of bias. Conclusions This review found that mHealth self-management interventions were effective in BP control. The outcomes of this review showed improvements in self-management behavior and medication adherence. The most successful mHealth intervention combined the feature of tailored messages, interactive communication, and multifaceted functions. Further research with longer duration and cultural adaptation is necessary. With increasing disease burden from hypertension globally, mHealth offers a potentially effective method for self-management and control of BP. mHealth can be easily integrated into existing health care systems. Trial Registration PROSPERO CRD42019152062; https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=152062

A Covering Tour Model for Planning Mobile Health Care Facilities in SuhumDistrict, Ghama

1998 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. John Hodgson ◽  
Gilbert Laporte ◽  
Frederic Semet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Mobile Health Care ◽  
Care Facilities

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Usability Challenges and Testing in Mobile Health

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tareq Ali Al-Saadi ◽  
Tamer Mohammed Aljarrah ◽  
Anahed Mudheher Alhashemi ◽  
Azham Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
Portable Devices ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, the combining of advanced mobile communications and mobile account now in portable devices named "smart phones" has becomes more great uses. Among of these include health care professionals. Few studies in the challenge, blurred reality challenge facing the patient and developer alike in the usability of mobile health. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the usability challenges in mobile health and usability testing. The systematic review was using for collecting the prior studies that relation with our study. This study concentrates on the three digital libraries Google scholar, ACM and IEEE, as well as, the researcher selected the studies between 2007 and 2015. The results from this systematic were selected 11 studies of 106 based on the inclusions criteria. In more details, the usability challenges found that 27% offered User Interface, 22% tasks and screen size, 16% insert media and 13% network. On the other hand, usability use found that, 46% of the selected studies the usability use of formal type of 45% informal and 9% mixed formal and informal. Sum up, the use of smart phones is getting more on health care and day out. Medical applications make smart phones useful tools in the practice of evidence-based medicine at the point of care, in addition to its use in mobile clinical communications. This study will making a contribution to the researchers to extract over the impact of the challenges on usability testing and the types of usability in mobile health.

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