MHealth for the Self-management of Knee Osteoarthritis: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Educating patients on the self-management of knee osteoarthritis (OA) reportedly reduces pain, improves activities of daily living, and even reduces health care costs.

Objective

This scoping review will summarize the current evidence on mobile health (mHealth) and smartphone app-based disease self-management for patients with knee OA.

Methods

PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, and CINAHL were systematically searched in May 2021 using the keywords "knee osteoarthritis," "mobile health," and "self-management." Studies that investigated patients with knee OA based on radiography or clinical diagnosis were included. The following criteria were applied to the mobile phone apps included in the search-derived studies: the a

SUBMITTER: Kitagawa T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10203920 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature