Kaur Mahima, Kaur Harpreet, Rathi Surbhi, Ashwitha Manikyarao, Joanna Jenifer, Reddy Srinitya, Idris Batul, Myrtle Persis, Kandamuru Sarvani, Fatima Sara, Joshi Ashish
Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society, New Delhi, Delhi, India.
Department of Nutrition, St. Ann's College for Women, Hyderabad, India.
Mhealth. 2022 Apr 20;8:14. doi: 10.21037/mhealth-21-25. eCollection 2022.
A large number of individuals with hypertension are turning to the Internet and m-health technologies for assistance. There is a need to study the content of smartphone applications on hypertension. The study aimed to review and investigate the functional and analytical characteristics of apps related to the self-management of hypertension available on Google Play Store.
Search was conducted in February 2021 in India using the Google Play Store database to identify currently available Android-based apps related to self-management of hypertension/high blood pressure (BP). Keywords used were: 'Hypertension', 'High blood pressure', 'DASH diet', 'Hypertension diet', and 'Blood pressure diet'. A total of 822 apps were screened based on the duplicates, inclusion, and exclusion criteria. A total of 210 were included for further analysis.
Eighteen percent (n=37) of the apps had an overall rating of 4.5 or above. About 41% of the apps belonged to the medical category and 41% of the apps were characterized in the health and fitness category. Feature of logging/recording the BP measurement was seen in 73% of the apps. In-app graphing to analyze BP trends was reported in 64 % of the included apps. A few apps focused on tracking medication (n=19), sodium intake (n=2), and calorie intake (n=4).
The features were common across all the included apps and were focusing only on recording the BP, providing statistics and trends of BP, and providing educational information. App developers should now aim to provide other components of self-management techniques to help individuals tackle hypertension.
大量高血压患者正在转向互联网和移动健康技术寻求帮助。有必要研究高血压相关智能手机应用程序的内容。本研究旨在回顾和调查谷歌应用商店中与高血压自我管理相关应用程序的功能和分析特征。
2021年2月在印度利用谷歌应用商店数据库进行搜索，以识别当前可用的与高血压/高血压（BP）自我管理相关的基于安卓的应用程序。使用的关键词有：“高血压”、“高血压”、“DASH饮食”、“高血压饮食”和“血压饮食”。根据重复、纳入和排除标准，共筛选了822个应用程序。共有210个应用程序被纳入进一步分析。
18%（n=37）的应用程序总体评分在4.5及以上。约41%的应用程序属于医疗类别，41%的应用程序属于健康与健身类别。73%的应用程序具备记录血压测量值的功能。64%的纳入应用程序报告了用于分析血压趋势的内置图表功能。少数应用程序专注于跟踪用药（n=19）、钠摄入量（n=2）和卡路里摄入量（n=4）。
所有纳入应用程序的功能都很常见，仅专注于记录血压、提供血压统计数据和趋势以及提供教育信息。应用程序开发者现在应致力于提供自我管理技术的其他组成部分，以帮助个人应对高血压。
