Interactive digital interventions to promote self-management in adults with asthma: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To identify, summarise and synthesise the evidence for using interactive digital interventions to support patient self-management of asthma, and determine their impact.

Methods

Systematic review with meta-analysis. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, ERIC, Cochrane Library, DoPHER, TROPHI, Social Science Citation Index and Science Citation Index. The selection criteria requirement was studies of adults (16 years and over) with asthma, interventions that were interactive digital interventions and the comparator was usual care. Outcomes were change in clinical outcomes, cost effectiveness and patient-reported measures of wellbeing or quality of life. Only Randomised Controlled Trials published in peer-reviewed journals in English were eligible. Potential

SUBMITTER: McLean G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4876566 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature