Community Paediatrics Hillingdon Hospital, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Hillingdon, Hillingdon, UK
Research and Training, Geniuslane Child Development Centre, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
BMJ Paediatr Open. 2022 May;6(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001358.
This review aims to identify the mhealth apps delivering early intervention to support parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). We aim to explore the concept, context and methodology of implementation that is, theoretical framework, feasibility, quality of evidence, for such apps.
To improve outcomes for children with autism, early intervention has been found to be promising. Parental training, parent psychoeducation and parent-mediated intervention are regarded as the gold standard, to achieve early childhood development goals. Digital health technologies like tele-health, web-based services, have been used to deliver this at a reduced cost. There is little evidence about their use and efficacy in empowering parents of children with ASD.
The studies reporting the use of mhealth apps to support parents of children with ASD, in community settings, school settings, special schools, clinics, hospitals or child development centres. There will be no exclusion based on region, gender or sociocultural factors. The types of studies included will be quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods study designs, case reports, grey literature, systematic reviews, clinical trials and studies reporting feasibility of digital mhealth applications.
Using the NICE Healthcare Databases Advanced Search, we will search the following databases: MEDLINE, PUBMED, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, EbscoHost, Sabinet, SAGE Journals, Directory of Open Access Journals, BioMed Central, Scopus, ScienceDirect. Furthermore, grey literature will be searched through Google Scholar, ShodhGanga, JSTOR, CORE, EBSCO, DOAJ, BASE. The searches will be limited to the age range of children between 2 and 6 years with ASD, and the date range is from the inception of the database to the current date. The terms for the ASD will be combined with terms for parent, early intervention and digital mhealth to identify eligible studies.
本综述旨在确定提供早期干预以支持自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）儿童家长的移动健康应用程序。我们旨在探索此类应用程序的实施概念、背景和方法，即理论框架、可行性、证据质量。
为改善自闭症儿童的预后，早期干预已被证明具有很大的潜力。父母培训、家长心理教育和家长介导的干预被认为是实现儿童早期发展目标的金标准。远程医疗、基于网络的服务等数字健康技术已被用于以较低的成本提供这种服务。关于它们在增强 ASD 儿童家长方面的使用和效果的证据很少。
报告使用移动健康应用程序支持社区环境、学校环境、特殊学校、诊所、医院或儿童发展中心的 ASD 儿童家长的研究。不基于地区、性别或社会文化因素进行排除。纳入的研究类型将包括定量、定性、混合方法研究设计、病例报告、灰色文献、系统评价、临床试验和报告数字移动健康应用程序可行性的研究。
使用 NICE 医疗保健数据库高级搜索，我们将搜索以下数据库：MEDLINE、PUBMED、CINAHL、EMBASE、PsycINFO、Cochrane 图书馆、EbscoHost、Sabinet、SAGE 期刊、开放获取期刊目录、生物医学中心、Scopus、ScienceDirect。此外，将通过 Google Scholar、ShodhGanga、JSTOR、CORE、EBSCO、DOAJ、BASE 搜索灰色文献。搜索将限于年龄在 2 至 6 岁之间的 ASD 儿童，并将日期范围设定为数据库创建日期到当前日期。将 ASD 的术语与父母、早期干预和数字移动健康的术语相结合，以确定合格的研究。
