Mobile-Health (mHealth) Intervention on Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Critical Review and Its Implications (Preprint)

Abstract

BACKGROUND eElectronic health (eHealth) chronic kidney disease (CKD) information is readily available over the mobile devices and placed as mobile-health (mHealth) information resources. The field of mHealth on CKD is promising in that it can empower individuals and delay the progress of the disease. OBJECTIVE This study aims to critically review published papers on the eHealth and its implication on mHealth of CKD. METHODS The academic databases EBSCO (CINAHL and PROQUEST), MEDLINE, PubMed, and Cochrane were systematically searched. Eight studies investigated the specific role of mHealth on CKD, including the detailed contents related to the conceptual acceptance and usage of technology in daily life, user, health care professionals, and the system’s bonding, mobile eHealth, content and evaluation of mHealth on CKD. RESULTS The available evidence on mHealth of CKD is limited and the findings indicate a discrepancy of the wording concept of mHealth. Those evidences might be caused by the scarce evidence on the effectiveness of using mHealth on CKD. CONCLUSIONS The limitation on the availability of CKD’s mobile health interventions that focus on patient education, behavior change and prevention contributes to inconsistent usage. Inadequate evidence might interrupt the development of mHealth intervention for individuals with CKD. Our findings illustrate the need on the conceptualizing of mHealth on CKD, acceptance and accessed, content, and evaluation focused on evidence-based will advance the quality of mHealth services, facilitate the continuity of mHealth application, and proposed patient-center-care.