The rapid growth in the use of smartphones has opened a new world of opportunities for use in behavioral health care. Mobile phone software applications (apps) are available for a variety of useful tasks to include symptom assessment, psychoeducation, resource location, and tracking of treatment progress. The latest two-way communication functionality of smartphones also brings new capabilities...

BACKGROUND Several thousand mobile phone apps are available to download to mobile phones for health and fitness. Mobile phones may provide a unique means of administering health interventions to populations. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this systematic review was to systematically search and describe the literature on mobile apps used in health behavior interventions, describe the behavioral feat...

As M-Health apps become more popular, users can access mobile health information (MHI) through these platforms. Yet one preeminent question among both researchers and practitioners is how to bridge the gap between simply providing MHI persuading buy into for self-management. To solve this challenge, study extends Elaboration Likelihood Model explore make advice persuasive by identifying importa...

Introduction: Promoting health education through different platforms (patient portals, social media, websites) has become a common practice in many countries. Recently, hospitals have prioritized mobile apps as tool. Objectives: This paper aims to analyze how should use promote efficiently and this way improve their relations with patients. Methodology: To answer question, we carried out litera...