Measurement Properties of Smartphone Approaches to Assess Diet, Alcohol Use, and Tobacco Use: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poor diet, alcohol use, and tobacco smoking have been identified as strong determinants of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Smartphones have the potential to provide a real-time, pervasive, unobtrusive, and cost-effective way to measure these health behaviors and deliver instant feedback to users. Despite this, the validity of using smartphones to measure these behaviors is largely unknown.

Objective

The aim of our review is to identify existing smartphone-based approaches to measure these health behaviors and critically appraise the quality of their measurement properties.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search of the Ovid MEDLINE, Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Library (Wiley), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), CINAHL (EBSCOHost)

SUBMITTER: Thornton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895282 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature