Mobile Apps for People With Rare Diseases: Review and Quality Assessment Using Mobile App Rating Scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular, with 5.70 million apps available in early 2021. Smartphones can provide portable and convenient access to health apps. Here, we consider apps for people with one of the estimated 7000 rare conditions, which are defined as having an incidence of <1 in 2000. The needs of people with rare conditions are known to be different from those of people with more common conditions. The former may be socially isolated (not knowing anyone else who has the condition) and may not be able to find reliable information about the disorder.

Objective

The aim of this review is to search for apps developed specifically for people diagnosed with a rare disease and to assess them for quality using the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS). We exami

SUBMITTER: Hatem S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9364167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature