Kustiawan Theresia Chrisanthy, Nadhiroh Siti Rahayu, Ramli Roziana, Butryee Chaniphun
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia.
Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Digit Health. 2022 Nov 13;8:20552076221138641. doi: 10.1177/20552076221138641. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.
Advances in knowledge and technology have created opportunities to help monitor child growth. Thus, we conducted a systematic review to determine if the use of mobile apps resulted in improved growth outcomes for children. We include articles published related to children's growth with poor nutritional status. The relevant articles were searched from PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, ProQuest, and Google Scholar. Twelve studies were identified, which is the use of the mobile app to monitor growth in undernutrition and obesity in children. Six studies found that the use of mobile apps improved undernutrition child growth and improved parents' and/or front health workers' knowledge to prevent, treat, and monitor children with undernutrition. Six studies stated that the use of mobile app helps overweight/obese children lose weight and motivate them to achieve ideal body weight. Mobile apps for monitoring the growth of children with various standards are likely a promising means for early detection of growth failure and guiding overweight/obese children in gaining normal weight. Studies with large sample sizes and long-term interventions and follow-ups are needed to help assess the effectiveness of mobile app intervention programs and their impact on multiple growth outcomes more comprehensively and accurately.
知识和技术的进步为监测儿童生长创造了机会。因此，我们进行了一项系统综述，以确定使用移动应用程序是否能改善儿童的生长结果。我们纳入了与营养状况不佳的儿童生长相关的已发表文章。相关文章从PubMed、ScienceDirect、Scopus、ProQuest和谷歌学术搜索。共识别出12项研究，则是使用移动应用程序监测儿童营养不良和肥胖情况。6项研究发现，使用移动应用程序改善了营养不良儿童的生长情况，并提高了家长和/或一线卫生工作者预防、治疗和监测营养不良儿童的知识水平。6项研究表明，使用移动应用程序有助于超重/肥胖儿童减肥，并激励他们达到理想体重。使用各种标准监测儿童生长的移动应用程序可能是早期发现生长发育不良以及指导超重/肥胖儿童达到正常体重的一种很有前景的手段。需要进行大样本量、长期干预和随访的研究，以更全面、准确地评估移动应用程序干预项目的有效性及其对多种生长结果的影响。
