Scaling Up mHealth: Where Is the Evidence?
By M. Tomlinson, M. Rotheram-Borus, L. Swartz, A. Tsai. PLoS Medicine, 2013
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Mark Tomlinson and colleagues question whether there is sufficient evidence on implementation and effectiveness to match the wide enthusiasm for mHealth interventions, and propose a global strategy to determine needed evidence to support mHealth scale-up.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Impact of mHealth Chronic Disease Management on Treatment Adherence and Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review (2015, neutral): “The reported impact of mHealth interventions is mixed, with studies showing modest benefits for some clinical diagnosis and management support outcomes [9,10].”
- Mental Health Smartphone Apps: Review and Evidence-Based Recommendations for Future Developments (2016, neutral): “Most research into mobile health has focused on validating single entrepreneurial apps, rather than pursuing rigorous RCTs to validate principles that can guide development of future apps [21].”
- m-Health adoption by healthcare professionals: a systematic review (2016, background): “Second, m-health interventions can be seen as a patchwork of small-scale pilot projects(11) and most of these interventions work as black boxes with little use of theoretical foundations.(14) Although mobile communication is now part of the everyday life of most human beings, the use of m-health app”
- Systematic review on what works, what does not work and why of implementation of mobile health (mHealth) projects in Africa (2014, background): “cently published a review where they discuss the lack of evidence regarding mHealth effectiveness and efficacy [64].”
- mHealth 2.0: Experiences, Possibilities, and Perspectives (2014, background): “On setting up a mobile communication intervention, one needs to bear in mind that next to the above-mentioned psychological factors, text messaging is more likely to work under a set of ideal parameters to include [26,42] the presence of follow-up; messages that are highly relevant in frequency, wor”