EHealth and mHealth Psychosocial Interventions for Youths With Chronic Illnesses: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An estimated 12.8% of children and adolescents experience chronic health conditions that lead to poor quality of life, adjustment and coping issues, and concurrent mental health problems. Digital health deployment of psychosocial interventions to support youth with chronic illness has become increasingly popular with the advent of the technological advances in the digital age.

Objective

Our objectives were to systematically review published efficacy studies of eHealth and mHealth (mobile health) psychosocial interventions for youths with chronic illnesses and review intervention theory and treatment components.

Methods

PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, PsycInfo, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched for studies published from 2008 to 2019

SUBMITTER: Lau N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7685926 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature