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Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores

BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal diseases are associated with substantial cost in health care. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic and further digitalization of gastrointestinal tract health care, mobile health apps could complement routine health care. Many gastrointestinal health care apps are already a...

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Autores principales: Messner, Eva-Maria, Sturm, Niklas, Terhorst, Yannik, Sander, Lasse B, Schultchen, Dana, Portenhauser, Alexandra, Schmidbaur, Simone, Stach, Michael, Klaus, Jochen, Baumeister, Harald, Walter, Benjamin M
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36197717
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/37497
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author Messner, Eva-Maria
Sturm, Niklas
Terhorst, Yannik
Sander, Lasse B
Schultchen, Dana
Portenhauser, Alexandra
Schmidbaur, Simone
Stach, Michael
Klaus, Jochen
Baumeister, Harald
Walter, Benjamin M
author_facet Messner, Eva-Maria
Sturm, Niklas
Terhorst, Yannik
Sander, Lasse B
Schultchen, Dana
Portenhauser, Alexandra
Schmidbaur, Simone
Stach, Michael
Klaus, Jochen
Baumeister, Harald
Walter, Benjamin M
author_sort Messner, Eva-Maria
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description BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal diseases are associated with substantial cost in health care. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic and further digitalization of gastrointestinal tract health care, mobile health apps could complement routine health care. Many gastrointestinal health care apps are already available in the app stores, but the quality, data protection, and reliability often remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the quality characteristics as well as the privacy and security measures of mobile health apps for the management of gastrointestinal diseases. METHODS: A web crawler systematically searched for mobile health apps with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases. The identified mobile health apps were evaluated using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS). Furthermore, app characteristics, data protection, and security measures were collected. Classic user star rating was correlated with overall mobile health app quality. RESULTS: The overall quality of the mobile health apps (N=109) was moderate (mean 2.90, SD 0.52; on a scale ranging from 1 to 5). The quality of the subscales ranged from low (mean 1.89, SD 0.66) to good (mean 4.08, SD 0.57). The security of data transfer was ensured only by 11 (10.1%) mobile health apps. None of the mobile health apps had an evidence base. The user star rating did not correlate with the MARS overall score or with the individual subdimensions of the MARS (all P>.05). CONCLUSIONS: Mobile health apps might have a positive impact on diagnosis, therapy, and patient guidance in gastroenterology in the future. We conclude that, to date, data security and proof of efficacy are not yet given in currently available mobile health apps.
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spelling pubmed-95829132022-10-21 Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores Messner, Eva-Maria Sturm, Niklas Terhorst, Yannik Sander, Lasse B Schultchen, Dana Portenhauser, Alexandra Schmidbaur, Simone Stach, Michael Klaus, Jochen Baumeister, Harald Walter, Benjamin M J Med Internet Res Original Paper BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal diseases are associated with substantial cost in health care. In times of the COVID-19 pandemic and further digitalization of gastrointestinal tract health care, mobile health apps could complement routine health care. Many gastrointestinal health care apps are already available in the app stores, but the quality, data protection, and reliability often remain unclear. OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aimed to evaluate the quality characteristics as well as the privacy and security measures of mobile health apps for the management of gastrointestinal diseases. METHODS: A web crawler systematically searched for mobile health apps with a focus on gastrointestinal diseases. The identified mobile health apps were evaluated using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS). Furthermore, app characteristics, data protection, and security measures were collected. Classic user star rating was correlated with overall mobile health app quality. RESULTS: The overall quality of the mobile health apps (N=109) was moderate (mean 2.90, SD 0.52; on a scale ranging from 1 to 5). The quality of the subscales ranged from low (mean 1.89, SD 0.66) to good (mean 4.08, SD 0.57). The security of data transfer was ensured only by 11 (10.1%) mobile health apps. None of the mobile health apps had an evidence base. The user star rating did not correlate with the MARS overall score or with the individual subdimensions of the MARS (all P>.05). CONCLUSIONS: Mobile health apps might have a positive impact on diagnosis, therapy, and patient guidance in gastroenterology in the future. We conclude that, to date, data security and proof of efficacy are not yet given in currently available mobile health apps. JMIR Publications 2022-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9582913/ /pubmed/36197717 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/37497 Text en ©Eva-Maria Messner, Niklas Sturm, Yannik Terhorst, Lasse B Sander, Dana Schultchen, Alexandra Portenhauser, Simone Schmidbaur, Michael Stach, Jochen Klaus, Harald Baumeister, Benjamin M Walter. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 05.10.2022. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
spellingShingle Original Paper
Messner, Eva-Maria
Sturm, Niklas
Terhorst, Yannik
Sander, Lasse B
Schultchen, Dana
Portenhauser, Alexandra
Schmidbaur, Simone
Stach, Michael
Klaus, Jochen
Baumeister, Harald
Walter, Benjamin M
Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores
title Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores
title_full Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores
title_fullStr Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores
title_full_unstemmed Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores
title_short Mobile Apps for the Management of Gastrointestinal Diseases: Systematic Search and Evaluation Within App Stores
title_sort mobile apps for the management of gastrointestinal diseases: systematic search and evaluation within app stores
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9582913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36197717
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/37497
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