Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait.
Psychology, General Education, Liberal Arts Department, American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020 Nov 26;8(11):e19391. doi: 10.2196/19391.
BACKGROUND: Mobile apps are viewed as a promising opportunity to provide support for patients who have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The development of mobile technologies and apps shows similar trends in PTSD treatment. Therefore, this emerging research field has received substantial attention. Consequently, various research settings are planned for current and further studies. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore the scientific patterns of research domains related to mobile apps and other technologies for PTSD treatment in scholarly publications, and to suggest further studies for this emerging research field. METHODS: We conducted a bibliometric analysis to identify publication patterns, most important keywords, trends for topicality, and text analysis, along with construction of a word cloud for papers published in the last decade (2010 to 2019). Research questions were formulated based on the relevant literature. In particular, we concentrated on highly ranked sources. Based on the proven bibliometric approach, the data were ultimately retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics). RESULTS: A total of 64 studies were found concerning the research domains. The vast majority of the papers were written in the English language (63/64, 98%) with the remaining article (1/64, 2%) written in French. The articles were written by 323 authors/coauthors from 11 different countries, with the United States predominating, followed by England, Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, France, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, and Vietnam. The most common publication type was peer-reviewed journal articles (48/64, 75%), followed by reviews (8/64, 13%), meeting abstracts (5/64, 8%), news items (2/64, 3%), and a proceeding (1/64, 2%). There was a mean of 6.4 papers published per year over the study period. There was a 100% increase in the number of publications published from 2016 to 2019 with a mean of 13.33 papers published per year during this latter period. CONCLUSIONS: Although the number of papers on mobile technologies for PTSD was quite low in the early period, there has been an overall increase in this research domain in recent years (2016-2019). Overall, these findings indicate that mobile health tools in combination with traditional treatment for mental disorders among veterans increase the efficiency of health interventions, including reducing PTSD symptoms, improving quality of life, conducting intervention evaluation, and monitoring of improvements. Mobile apps and technologies can be used as supportive tools in managing pain, anger, stress, and sleep disturbance. These findings therefore provide a useful overview of the publication trends on research domains that can inform further studies and highlight potential gaps in this field.
背景:移动应用程序被视为为创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)患者提供支持的有前途的机会。移动技术和应用程序的发展在 PTSD 治疗方面呈现出类似的趋势。因此,这个新兴的研究领域引起了广泛关注。结果,各种研究环境都为当前和进一步的研究进行了规划。
目的:本研究旨在探讨学术出版物中与 PTSD 治疗相关的移动应用程序和其他技术的研究领域的科学模式,并为这一新兴研究领域提出进一步的研究建议。
方法:我们进行了文献计量分析,以确定过去十年(2010 年至 2019 年)发表的论文的出版模式、最重要的关键词、主题趋势和文本分析,以及为论文构建词云。根据相关文献提出了研究问题。特别是,我们集中在排名较高的来源上。根据经过验证的文献计量方法,最终从科睿唯安的 Web of Science 核心合集(Clarivate Analytics)中检索数据。
结果:共发现 64 项关于研究领域的研究。绝大多数论文为英文(63/64,98%),其余一篇(1/64,2%)为法文。这些文章由来自 11 个不同国家的 323 位作者/合著者撰写,美国占主导地位,其次是英国、加拿大、意大利、荷兰、澳大利亚、法国、德国、墨西哥、瑞典和越南。最常见的出版物类型是同行评审的期刊文章(48/64,75%),其次是评论(8/64,13%)、会议摘要(5/64,8%)、新闻项目(2/64,3%)和会议录(1/64,2%)。在研究期间,每年平均有 6.4 篇论文发表。从 2016 年到 2019 年,出版物数量增加了 100%,在此期间,每年平均有 13.33 篇论文发表。
结论:尽管早期有关 PTSD 移动技术的论文数量相当低,但近年来该研究领域的总体数量有所增加(2016-2019 年)。总的来说,这些发现表明,将移动健康工具与退伍军人精神障碍的传统治疗相结合,可以提高健康干预措施的效率,包括减轻 PTSD 症状、提高生活质量、进行干预评估和监测改善情况。移动应用程序和技术可以用作管理疼痛、愤怒、压力和睡眠障碍的支持工具。这些发现因此提供了关于可用于告知进一步研究并突出该领域潜在差距的研究领域的出版趋势的有用概述。
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