Comprehensively addressing postpartum maternal health: a content and image review of commercially available mobile health apps.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The United States is currently facing a maternal morbidity and mortality crisis, with the highest rates of any resource-rich nation. In efforts to address this, new guidelines for postpartum care suggest that mobile health (mHealth) apps can help provide complementary clinical support for new mothers during the postpartum period. However, to date no study has evaluated the quality of existing mHealth tools targeted to this time period in terms of sufficiency of maternal health information, inclusivity of people of color, and app usability.

Methods

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) standards were used to review the peripartum apps from the Apple and Google Play stores in either the Health/Fitness, Medical, or Education cate

SUBMITTER: Tucker L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8059182 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature