Review of Mobile Apps for Women With Anxiety in Pregnancy: Maternity Care Professionals' Guide to Locating and Assessing Anxiety Apps.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health and pregnancy apps are widely available and have the potential to improve health outcomes and enhance women's experience of pregnancy. Women frequently access digital information throughout their pregnancy. However, health care providers and women have little information to guide them toward potentially helpful or effective apps.

Objective

This review aimed to evaluate a methodology for systematically searching and reviewing commercially available apps that support pregnant women with symptoms of anxiety in order to assist maternity care professionals in identifying resources that they could recommend for these women.

Methods

A stepwise systematic approach was used to identify, select, describe, and assess the most popular and highly user-rate

SUBMITTER: Evans K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987965 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature