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- Title
The role of mobile health in the quality of life of the elderly.
- Authors
Haghshenas, Elham; Gholamzadeh, Marsa; Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh R.
- Abstract
Background: The elderly population is increasing in the world. Today, information technology has made good progress in the field of health. Using telecare and mobile health can reduce treatment costs and save time. Objective: Using mobile health can be a solution to care elderly and this study is aimed to address the effect of mhealth on the elderly's quality of life. Material and Methods: This study is performed through a search in PubMed, Scopus, and the Web of Science databases from 2010 to 2020. The criteria for inclusion were included in any study illustrated about the elderly, English papers, original papers, and using Mobile health. Related articles were selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. The survey and meta-synthesis of included articles were conducted based on the predefined classification. Results: Among 1683 studies, 14 articles met our inclusion criteria. about quality of life applied in reviewed articles have used 42.85% articles of the questionnaire to assess the quality of life of the elderly and 57.515% indirectly assess. The majority of studies (85.71%) showed the positive impact of mobile health in improving the quality of life of the aging population. Conclusion: This systematic review could show a positive effect of using mhealth in the quality of life of aging people and it is good to pay attention to considering those factors which threaten the quality of life of the old population as there is still room to improve the level of life quality of old people.
- Subjects
MOBILE health; QUALITY of life; OLDER people; ELDER care; SCIENCE databases; WEB databases; HEALTH of older people
- Publication
Journal of Biomedical Physics & Engineering, 2021, Vol 11, p117
- ISSN
2251-7200
- Publication type
Article