Mobile Phone Apps to Support Heart Failure Self-Care Management: Integrative Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With an explosive growth in mobile health, an estimated 500 million patients are potentially using mHealth apps for supporting health and self-care of chronic diseases. Therefore, this review focused on mHealth apps for use among patients with heart failure.

Objective

The aim of this integrative review was to identify and assess the functionalities of mHealth apps that provided usability and efficacy data and apps that are commercially available without supporting data, all of which are to support heart failure self-care management and thus impact heart failure outcomes.

Methods

A search of published, peer-reviewed literature was conducted for studies of technology-based interventions that used mHealth apps specific for heart failure. The initial database s

SUBMITTER: Athilingam P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6834210 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature