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Table 8 Appropriateness of mHealth Interventions

From: Clinical and patient-centered implementation outcomes of mHealth interventions for type 2 diabetes in low-and-middle income countries: a systematic review

Study

MHealth intervention

Messages/ content was understandable

Measures of appropriateness

Haddad et al. [52]

Text messaging

90.5%

• Received messages at appropriate times: 100%

Huo et al. [53]

Text Messaging

97.1%

• Text messaging useful: 94.1%

• Participants reported reading: 80% >75% of the messages,

Limaye et al. [58]

Text Messaging, email, Website, Facebook®

NR

• Recommend approach to family or friends: 96%

• Average adherence at 1 year: 74.5%

(Mobile messages: 78.0% e-mails: 71.0%).

• Average e-mail opening rate at 6 months: 93%

Owolabi et al. [61]

Text Messaging

NR

• Satisfied with the timing of the SMS delivery: 98%

• Messages were helpful: 100%

• Messages did not stress them in any way: 99%

Patnaik et al. [62]

Mobile application

 

• Treatment satisfaction: 12.94 ± 2.9 out of total score of 15 (86.2%)

Sun et al. [70]

mHealth management app

NR

• Convenience for telemedical management: 81%

• Helpful in self-monitoring of glucose: 93%

• Helpful in glucose diabetes knowledge: 98%