Self-care intervention using mobile apps for sexual and reproductive health in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region.

IF 2.5 4区医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Informatics for Health & Social Care Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Epub Date: 2023-08-10 DOI:10.1080/17538157.2023.2239914

Hayat Sedrati, Abdesselam Bougdira, Nabiha Kamal, Najib Alidrissi, Sofia Sehli, Salsabil Hamdi, Asmae Mazti, Hicham Elfazazi, Rachid Aboutaib, Wajih Rhalem, Nezha Dini, Bouchra Assarrag, Nadia Bezad, Laila Acharai, Hafid Hachri, Redouane Rabie, Saaid Amzazi, Chakib Nejjari, Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Hassan Ghazal

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Abstract

Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) concerns physical, mental, and social well-being as related to sexual and reproductive systems. Self-care, which is the ability to promote health without the support of a health-care provider, can advance SRH, especially for fragile populations. Mobile health (mHealth) solutions can be used to raise awareness about SRH. We performed a structured literature review and analysis of mHealth-based approaches for delivering self-SRH services and interventions in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). A fuzzy-based framework for assessing those mHealth apps was proposed. We identified 6 out of 737 papers, and 23 (5.7%) out of 400 mHealth apps retrieved from app-stores, describing mHealth use for self SRH with only 10 apps developed in EMR countries, namely Morocco, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, and Jordan. Our fuzzy-based framework proposes guidelines regarding the implementation of self-care interventions to help project leaders promote their adoption in the SRH systems.

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在世卫组织东地中海区域使用移动应用程序进行性健康和生殖健康自我保健干预。

性健康和生殖健康(SRH)涉及与性和生殖系统相关的身体、精神和社会福祉。自我保健，即在没有保健提供者支持的情况下促进健康的能力，可以促进性健康和生殖健康，特别是对脆弱人群而言。移动医疗(mHealth)解决方案可用于提高对性健康和生殖健康的认识。我们对在世卫组织东地中海地区(EMR)提供自我生殖健康服务和干预措施的基于移动健康的方法进行了结构化的文献回顾和分析。提出了一种基于模糊的移动健康应用评估框架。我们确定了737篇论文中的6篇，以及从应用商店检索的400个移动健康应用程序中的23个(5.7%)，描述了移动健康用于自我SRH的使用，其中只有10个应用程序是在EMR国家开发的，即摩洛哥、巴基斯坦、埃及、伊朗和约旦。我们基于模糊的框架提出了关于自我保健干预措施实施的指导方针，以帮助项目负责人促进其在SRH系统中的采用。

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Informatics for Health & Social Care 医学-卫生保健

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6.10

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4.20%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Informatics for Health & Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus. The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems. Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social and ethical aspects. Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation are particularly welcome. Informatics in Health & Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data is collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalised, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience.