Abstract
Introduction: The use of mobile applications (apps) become widespread and Provide many benefits especially in healthcare. According to the World Health Organization, osteoporosis is one of the most common diseases of elderly in the world. Like other chronic conditions, disease self-management can prove fruitful. Using a mobile application for Osteoporosis can improve patient care and self-management by encouraging patients to take a more active role in their health.Material and Methods: This study presents a systematic review of mHealth applications, available on Google Play Store, Bazaar market (as a local market) and also Apple App Store, for both the English and Persian speakers. The assessment criteria, including content, visual aids, reminders, health warnings, social and design of selected apps, were tested during July 2019.Results: Reviewing the 19 included applications showed that the most and least focus of apps content was on exercise with 84% repetition and the osteoporosis fracture that no program addressed this issue separately. Findings on reminders, health warnings, and visual aids were not very encouraging (available in 11% apps). Reminders were more common in English-speaking apps than Persian-speaking ones, and Visual aids, one of the benefits of mobile apps over paper logbooks, were provided only in2 apps. The opportunity to share data in social networks was available in 26% of apps, and in the design section, most of the apps have no significant flaws, but 74% of cases did not provide any clear instructions required for the elderly.Conclusion:The review shows that there are rather few products on offer and the ones that are available display low quality, poor performance, and evidence-based information is also insufficiently used. Further efforts are required to collect data that will support the design of validated evidence-based educational functions for mHealth apps.
Highlights
The use of mobile applications become widespread and Provide many benefits especially in healthcare
Reviewing the 19 included applications showed that the most and least focus of apps content was on exercise with 84% repetition and the osteoporosis fracture that no program addressed this issue separately
Further efforts are required to collect data that will support the design of validated evidencebased educational functions for mobile health (mHealth) apps
Summary
The use of mobile applications (apps) become widespread and Provide many benefits especially in healthcare. Using a mobile application for Osteoporosis can improve patient care and self-management by encouraging patients to take a more active role in their health. The use of mobile applications (apps) has become widespread and has given many benefits In this case, many would argue that professionals and customers have entered the era of mobile health (mHealth) in which mobile technologies play a much larger role in healthcare [1, 2]. They make a new way to promote disease prevention, facilitate the transition of care beyond the hospital setting to the home of patients, and improve the Osteoporosis Mobile Applications Review management of chronic diseases. Mhealth can reduce costs, increase access to services, and improve patient care and self-management by encouraging patients to take a more active role in their health [6,7,8,9,10,11]
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