A scoping review of the reporting quality of reviews of commercially and publicly available mobile health apps.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is no guidance to support the reporting of systematic reviews of mobile health (mhealth) apps (app reviews), so authors attempt to use/modify the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). There is a need for reporting guidance, building on PRISMA where appropriate, tailored to app reviews. The objectives were to describe the reporting quality of published mHealth app reviews, identify the need for, and develop potential candidate items for a reporting guideline.

Materials and methods

A scoping review following the Joanna Briggs Institute and Arksey and O'Malley approaches. App reviews were identified in January 2024 from SCOPUS, CINAHL, AMED, EMBASE, Medline, PsycINFO, ACM Digital Library, snowballing reference lists, and f

SUBMITTER: Gasteiger N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11729727 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature