Pregnancy Apps for Self-Monitoring: Scoping Review of the Most Popular Global Apps Available in Australia.

ABSTRACT: Digital health tools, such as apps, have the potential to promote healthy behaviours, especially self-monitoring, which can facilitate pregnancy management and reduce the risk of associated pregnancy health conditions. While pregnancy apps are popular amongst pregnant women, there is limited information about the overall quality of their content or self-monitoring tools and the number of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) that they include. The aim of this study was thus to assess the quality of pregnancy apps for self-monitoring, and their usage of BCTs. We identified pregnancy apps by web scraping the most popular global apps for self-monitoring in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store available in Australia. The app quality was evaluated using the scorecard approach and the inclusio

SUBMITTER: Lazarevic N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9858738 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature