Rossi Maria Grazia, Bigi Sarah
Department of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano, Italy.
Mhealth. 2017 May 4;3:16. doi: 10.21037/mhealth.2017.04.06. eCollection 2017.
mHealth is an expanding field of research and experimentation, concerned with the potentialities of mobile applications as tools to enhance patients' abilities in the management of chronic conditions. We present a systematic review of mHealth applications available on the Italian market and for the Italian speakers in order to assess their reported usability and functions. The review shows that there are rather few products on offer and the ones that are available display weak educational components, do not seem to be based on solid theoretical models of behavior change or decision making, and do not seem to be intended as devices to be integrated in the ecology of the doctor-patient relationship.
移动健康是一个不断扩展的研究与实验领域,关注移动应用程序作为增强患者慢性病管理能力工具的潜力。我们对意大利市场上以及面向意大利语使用者的移动健康应用程序进行了系统综述,以评估其报告的可用性和功能。综述表明,所提供的产品相当少,现有产品的教育成分薄弱,似乎并非基于行为改变或决策的坚实理论模型,也似乎并非旨在作为融入医患关系生态系统的设备。