Spanish-Language Consumer Health Information Technology Interventions: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As consumer health information technology (IT) becomes more thoroughly integrated into patient care, it is critical that these tools are appropriate for the diverse patient populations whom they are intended to serve. Cultural differences associated with ethnicity are one aspect of diversity that may play a role in user-technology interactions.

Objective

Our aim was to evaluate the current scope of consumer health IT interventions targeted to the US Spanish-speaking Latino population and to characterize these interventions in terms of technological attributes, health domains, cultural tailoring, and evaluation metrics.

Methods

A narrative synthesis was conducted of existing Spanish-language consumer health IT interventions indexed within health and computer

SUBMITTER: Chaet AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4997005 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature