ReviewJournal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR2015
mHealth in the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases in India: Current Possibilities and the Way Forward.
Review in Journal of clinical and diagnostic research : JCDR, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Digital horizons in non-communicable disease care: a bibliometric exploration of intervention impact and innovation.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring Heart Disease-Related mHealth Apps in India: Systematic Search in App Stores and Metadata Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- The incremental cost of implementing the world health organization Package of essential non-communicable (PEN) diseases interventions in Iran.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Mobile technology: A tool for healthcare and a boon in pandemic.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Review
- Mobile health applications for disease screening and treatment support in low-and middle-income countries: A narrative review.Heliyon · 2021Review
- A Survey Research on the Willingness of Gynecologists to Employ Mobile Health Applications.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2021Article
- Addressing anemia among women in India-an informed intervention using Facebook Ad Manager.mHealth · 2020Article
- Mobile Helpline and Reversible Contraception: Lessons From a Controlled Before-and-After Study in Rural India.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- Depression, anxiety, and bodily pain independently predict poor sleep quality among adult women attending a primary health center of Puducherry, India.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019Article
- Young, obese, and underweight patients show up inadequately at scheduled appointments: Findings from a record-based study on diabetic, hypertensive diabetic, and hypertensive patients attending a primary care clinic of Puducherry.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2019Article
- Promoting access equity and improving health care for women, children and people living with HIV/AIDS in Burkina Faso through mHealth.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2018Article
- Current Status and Future Directions of mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in India: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Review
- HIV Stigma Reduction for Health Facility Staff: Development of a Blended- Learning Intervention.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
- Mobile phone use among female entertainment workers in Cambodia: an observation study.mHealth · 2017Article
- Mobile Phone Usage and Willingness to Receive Health-Related Information Among Patients Attending a Chronic Disease Clinic in Rural Puducherry, India.Journal of diabetes science and technology · 2015Article
- Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Mobile health technology has been used effectively for healthcare delivery in many developing countries. India is currently facing an epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). With greater availability of cheaper phones in the market, the user base of mobile phones in India is increasing rapidly. The present review was thus conducted to explore the current possibilities and future scope of mobile health for NCD prevention and control in India. Literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library to collect information regarding mobile health interventions. Two authors extracted the data and included studies if at least the abstract was available. Information from key reports and government websites were also included. We examined information from domains such as need for mobile health in NCDs in India, and the advantages, scope and challenges of mobile health for healthcare delivery in India. Existing mobile health systems in India, current evidence of mobile health use in NCDs, and the recent mobile health related initiatives taken by Government of India were also assessed. Though we found some examples of current mobile phone usage in many health related programmes in India, data from mobile health research is scarce, particularly for NCDs. The current evidence base needs to be strengthened. There is also a need for identifying various opportunities in the recent initiatives taken by Government of India. It can be concluded that though mobile health has many advantages, there are numerous challenges which need to be addressed before scaling it up at the national level.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.