Smartphone Interventions for Long-Term Health Management of Chronic Diseases: An Integrative Review

Wang, Jingting; Wang, Yuanyuan; Chen, Wei; Yao, Nengliang; Yuan, Amy; Shan, Yuying; Yuan, Changrong

doi:10.1089/tmj.2013.0243

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“…Similar findings have been reported in studies of symptom-monitoring interventions for other chronic conditions, where patients described feelings of security, felt that they had not been forgotten and were receiving good care outside of hospital and clinic [56]. Additionally, findings of the present review reported that symptom-monitoring and management interventions appeared to improve patient-clinician communication, due to increased and easier access to clinicians and the reduction of patients' uncertainty of whether to contact them.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…These interventions were primarily designed to improve patients' self-management behaviours, such as adherence to treatment and monitoring of their condition [50,51]. The findings of the present review support previous literature that has found mobile technology to be an acceptable platform to deliver interventions to patients with chronic conditions, regardless of the patients' type of disease, age, gender and experience with technology [52][53][54][55][56]. Generally, the majority of patients included in studies of the present review found mobile interventions easy to use and engaging, regardless of the type of device used (e.g.…”

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confidence: 79%

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Use of Mobile Devices to Help Cancer Patients Meet Their Information Needs in Non-Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review (Preprint)

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Kinnersley²,

Brain³

et al. 2018

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The use of mobile devices to help patients with cancer to meet their information needs in non-inpatient settings: A systematic review IntroductionIt is estimated that one in two people in Great Britain will develop some form of cancer during their lifetime [1]. In 2014, 357,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the UK and the rate of incidence is increasing [2]. However, survival rates have doubled in the UK in the last 40 years and so, for many, cancer is a chronic condition with which they live for many years. Subsequently, there has been a shift from inpatient to outpatient and community cancer care, where patients are required to manage their condition at home, away from regular supervision by clinicians. This change in care requires patients to take a more active role in their treatment and survivorship. Patients are often faced with an uncertain future, unfamiliar tests and procedures, complex decisions about treatment options, treatment-related side-effects and lifestyle changes. In order to take a more active role in their care, and to cope with and manage these changes to daily life, patients require relevant information [3,4]. Research has established that patients have a wide range of information needs throughout their illness. Reviews of these studies suggest that patients generally want information on the extent of the disease, likelihood of cure and prognosis, available treatments, side-effects of treatment, self-care and return to normal life [5][6][7]. Other, less urgent, information needs include the impact of cancer and/or treatment on social activities, family and friends, mental wellbeing and sexual activity, and the risk of family and friends getting cancer [5,6]. There is evidence to suggest that information may help to reduce uncertainty, provide patients with a sense of control over their lives and support informed decision-making about treatment options [8,9]. While many people with cancer want as much information as possible about their condition [10], up to 93% of cancer patients across the US, Europe and the UK report having unmet information needs [11][12][13][14].The introduction of Smart technology has provided a new platform for delivering information-based interventions to patients. Approximately 93% of adults in the UK now personally own or use a mobile phone, of whom 71% specify that they own a Smartphone [15]. Similarly, over two thirds of adults in the UK now own or have access to a tablet computer [15]. Similar statistics of Smart device ownership and use have been reported in cancer patient populations [16,17]. Mobile devices therefore offer the potential for wide reach at the point of need for patients with cancer. Several existing systematic and scoping reviews have explored the general use of mobile devices for patients with cancer [18][19][20][21][22][23]. Findings from these reviews show that mobile interventions have been developed for a range of purposes, including the prevention, detection, and management of cancer; however, most interventions have been designed...

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Section: Findings In the Context Of Other Literaturesupporting

confidence: 79%

Use of Mobile Devices to Help Cancer Patients Meet Their Information Needs in Non-Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Richards¹,

Kinnersley²,

Brain³

et al. 2018

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“…As reviewed elsewhere (Lomborg and Frandsen 2015;Lupton 2016), existing research developed at the intersection of computer science and health studies treats personal self-tracking data as already having predetermined meaning and value, which can be mobilised in order to change the user's behaviour. The concerns in this field of research, therefore, have two key foci when it comes to user-oriented studies: the deployment of self-tracking for improving health through lifestyle interventions (see for example Turner-McGrievy et al 2013;Wang et al 2014); and how self-tracking technologies might be designed to motivate behaviour change on the basis of particular user experiences (see for example Kranza et al 2013)). …”

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Pedagogy as Possibility: Health Interventions as Digital Openness

Fors

Pink

2017

Social Sciences

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In this article we propose an approach to digital health tracking technologies that draws on design anthropology. This entails re-thinking the pedagogical importance of personal data as lying in how they participate in the constitution of new possibilities that enable people to learn about, and configure, their everyday health in new ways. There have been two dominant strands in traditional debates in the field of pedagogy: one that refers to processes of teaching people to do things in particular ways; and another that seeks to enable learning. The first of these corresponds with existing understandings of self-tracking technologies as either unsuccessful behavioural change devices, or as providing solutions to problems that do not necessarily exist. When seen as such, self-tracking technologies inevitably fail as forms of intervention towards better health. In this article we investigate what happens when we take the second strand-the notion of enabling learning as an incremental and emergent process-seriously as a mode of intervention towards health through self-tracking technologies. We show how such a shift in pedagogical understanding of the routes to knowing these technologies offer creates opportunities to move beyond simplistic ideas of behavioural change as the main application of digital body monitoring in everyday life. In what follows, we first demonstrate how the disjunctures that arise from this context emerge. We then outline a critical response to how learning through life-tracking has been conceptualised in research in health and human-computer interaction research. We offer an alternative response by drawing on a processual theory of learning and recent and emerging research in sociology, media studies, anthropology, and cognate disciplines. Then, drawing on ethnographic research, we argue for understanding learning through the production of personal data as involving emplaced and non-representational routes to knowing. This, we propose, requires a corresponding rethinking of the epistemological status of personal data and what kind of knowledge it can be claimed to produce. Finally, we take up the implications of this and advance the discussion through a design anthropological approach, through which we refigure the interventional potential of such technologies as lying in their capacity to create possibilities for experiential, and often unspoken, ways of embodied and emplaced knowing.

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“…Meanwhile, use of mobile interactive media, such as smart phones, among students is increasing rapidly owing to the portability and instant accessibility of modern devices. [4] The convenience of mobile internet education enables people to learn anytime and anywhere; the breaking down of the limits of time and space that it represents can be applied to medical education. [5,6]…”

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Cell phone-based online biochemistry and molecular biology medical education curriculum

Zhang

Cai

Zhao

et al. 2017

Medical Education Online

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Smartphone Interventions for Long-Term Health Management of Chronic Diseases: An Integrative Review

Abstract: 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.

Cited by 224 publications

References 31 publications

Use of Mobile Devices to Help Cancer Patients Meet Their Information Needs in Non-Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Use of Mobile Devices to Help Cancer Patients Meet Their Information Needs in Non-Inpatient Settings: Systematic Review (Preprint)

Pedagogy as Possibility: Health Interventions as Digital Openness

Cell phone-based online biochemistry and molecular biology medical education curriculum

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