Smartphone Interventions for Long-Term Health Management of Chronic Diseases: An Integrative Review
Smartphone Interventions for Long-Term Health Management of Chronic Diseases: An Integrative Review
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DOI：
10.1089/tmj.2013.0243
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发表时间：
2014-06-01
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Yuan, Changrong
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作者：
Wang, Jingting;Wang, Yuanyuan;Yuan, Changrong
引言：长期健康管理对于快速增长的慢性病患者数量具有挑战性。智能手机干预提供了有前途的解决方案。本文介绍了用于长期慢性病管理的智能手机干预措施的特点，说明了这些应用程序如何使慢性病患者受益。材料和方法：在五个出版物数据库中进行了智能手机健康干预措施的系统搜索。仅当（1）智能手机应用程序（app）专为慢性病患者开发，以及（2）文章纳入了明确的结局指标以评价实施干预的效果时，才纳入文章。16篇文章被纳入最终审查，包括糖尿病，心理健康问题，超重，癌症和慢性阻塞性肺病的研究。结果如下：这些研究发现，智能手机干预是一种完全或至少部分有效的工具，可以帮助管理一些慢性疾病。在与健康相关的智能手机应用程序的帮助下，慢性病患者（1）感到安全，因为他们的疾病受到密切监测，（2）更有效地参与自己的健康管理，（3）感到他们没有被医生遗忘，即使在医院/诊所之外也得到了很好的照顾。结论：然而，用于慢性病长期健康管理的智能手机应用程序有限。需要开发更多的智能手机应用程序来帮助人们管理慢性病。
Introduction: Long-term health management is challenging for the rapidly growing number of patients with chronic diseases. Smartphone interventions offer promising solutions. This article presents features of smartphone interventions for long-term chronic condition management, illustrating how these applications benefit patients with chronic diseases. Materials and Methods: Systematic searches for smartphone health interventions were conducted in five publication databases. Articles were included only if (1) the smartphone application (app) was exclusively developed for patients with chronic diseases and (2) the article incorporated a defined outcome measurement to evaluate the effects of the implemented intervention. Sixteen articles were included in the final review, including studies in diabetes, mental health problems, overweight, cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Results: These studies found that the smartphone intervention was a completely or at least partially effective tool to assist in managing some chronic diseases. With the help of health-related smartphone apps, patients with chronic conditions (1) felt secure in the knowledge that their illnesses were closely monitored, (2) participated in their own health management more effectively, and (3) felt that they had not been forgotten by their doctors and were taken good care of even outside the hospital/clinic. Conclusions: However, there are limited smartphone apps for the long-term health management of chronic diseases. More smartphone apps need to be developed to help people manage chronic diseases.