Content and Quality of Infant Feeding Smartphone Apps: Five-Year Update on a Systematic Search and Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents use apps to access information on child health, but there are no standards for providing evidence-based advice, support, and information. Well-developed apps that promote appropriate infant feeding and play can support healthy growth and development. A 2015 systematic assessment of smartphone apps in Australia about infant feeding and play found that most apps had minimal information, with poor readability and app quality.

Objective

This study aimed to systematically evaluate the information and quality of smartphone apps providing information on breastfeeding, formula feeding, introducing solids, or infant play for consumers.

Methods

The Google Play store and Apple App Store were searched for free and paid Android and iPhone Operating System (iOS)

SUBMITTER: Cheng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7287747 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature