Mobile-Based Oral Chemotherapy Adherence-Enhancing Interventions: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adherence to oral chemotherapy is crucial to maximize treatment outcomes and avoid health complications in cancer patients. Mobile phones are widely available worldwide, and evidence that this technology can be successfully employed to increase medication adherence for the treatment of other chronic diseases (eg, diabetes) is well established. However, the extent to which there is evidence that mobile phone-based interventions improve adherence to oral chemotherapy is unknown.

Objective

This scoping review aims to explore what is known about mobile phone-delivered interventions designed to enhance adherence to oral chemotherapy, to examine the reported findings on the utility of these interventions in increasing oral chemotherapy adherence, and to identify opportu

SUBMITTER: Skrabal Ross X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320412 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature