Mobile health (mHealth) in low-and middle-income countries

J McCool, R Dobson, R Whittaker… - Annual Review of Public …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
This article reflects on current trends and proposes new considerations for the future of
mobile technologies for health (mHealth). Our focus is predominantly on the value of and …

The effectiveness of mobile-health technology-based health behaviour change or disease management interventions for health care consumers: a systematic review

C Free, G Phillips, L Galli, L Watson, L Felix… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Mobile technologies could be a powerful media for providing individual level
support to health care consumers. We conducted a systematic review to assess the …

Mobile health interventions for improving health outcomes in youth: a meta-analysis

DA Fedele, CC Cushing, A Fritz, CM Amaro… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Mobile health interventions are increasingly popular in pediatrics; however, it is
unclear how effective these interventions are in changing health outcomes. Objective To …

A systematic review of telehealth tools and interventions to support family caregivers

NC Chi, G Demiris - Journal of telemedicine and telecare, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
We conducted a systematic review of studies employing telehealth interventions which
focused on family caregivers' outcomes. The Embase, CINHAL, Cochrane and PubMed …

[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and child health in low–and middle–income countries: Systematic review and meta–analysis

SH Lee, UB Nurmatov, BI Nwaru… - Journal of global …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To assess the effectiveness of mHealth interventions for maternal, newborn and
child health (MNCH) in low–and middle–income countries (LMIC). Methods 16 online …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping mHealth research: a decade of evolution

M Fiordelli, N Diviani, PJ Schulz - Journal of medical Internet research, 2013 - jmir.org
Background: For the last decade, mHealth has constantly expanded as a part of eHealth.
Mobile applications for health have the potential to target heterogeneous audiences and …

Preventive health behavior change text message interventions: a meta-analysis

AA Armanasco, YD Miller, BS Fjeldsoe… - American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Context Existing evidence shows that text message interventions can produce short-term
health behavior change. However, understanding is limited regarding intervention …

[HTML][HTML] mHealth application areas and technology combinations

H Abaza, M Marschollek - Methods of information in medicine, 2017 - thieme-connect.com
Background: With the continuous and enormous spread of mobile technologies, mHealth
has evolved as a new subfield of eHealth. While eHealth is broadly focused on information …

Effect of intervention using a messaging app on compliance and duration of treatment in orthodontic patients

X Li, ZR Xu, N Tang, C Ye, XL Zhu, T Zhou… - Clinical oral …, 2016 - Springer
Objectives This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a messaging app (WeChat) in
improving patients' compliance and reducing the duration of orthodontic treatment (DOT) …

Effect of mHealth in improving oral hygiene: a systematic review with meta‐analysis

MP Toniazzo, D Nodari, FWMG Muniz… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To evaluate the effectiveness of mobile applications and text messages, compared with
conventional oral hygiene instructions, for improving oral health knowledge and/or reducing …