Methods and Measures Used to Evaluate Patient-Operated Mobile Health Interventions: Scoping Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the prevalence of mobile health (mHealth) technologies and observations of their impacts on patients' health, there is still no consensus on how best to evaluate these tools for patient self-management of chronic conditions. Researchers currently do not have guidelines on which qualitative or quantitative factors to measure or how to gather these reliable data.

Objective

This study aimed to document the methods and both qualitative and quantitative measures used to assess mHealth apps and systems intended for use by patients for the self-management of chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Methods

A scoping review was performed, and PubMed, MEDLINE, Google Scholar, and ProQuest Research Library were searched for literature published in English between Ja

SUBMITTER: Bradway M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7226051 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature