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'Pushed' self-tracking using digital technologies for chronic health condition management: a critical interpretive synthesis.
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- Self-tracking in endometriosis: Evolving expectations around a gynecological app developed by a Finnish patient organization.Social studies of science · 2025Article
- The Promise of Digital Self-Management: A Reflection about the Effects of Patient-Targeted e-Health Tools on Self-Management and Wellbeing.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Assessment of Mobile Health Apps Using Built-In Smartphone Sensors for Diagnosis and Treatment: Systematic Survey of Apps Listed in International Curated Health App Libraries.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Article
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- A mixed methods exploratory study of women's relationships with and uses of fertility tracking apps.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
introductionHealth policies internationally advocate health services provider support for health services users' 'self-management' of chronic health conditions. Digital technologies are beginning to have a role in delivering such support. 'Pushed' self-tracking of health-related information, including imposed measurement of biomedical and behavioural data, is one approach; however, there is little systematic or discursive research. The aim of this research was to explore factors relevant to the implementation of 'pushed' self-tracking technologies into support for self-management of chronic health conditions interventions.
methodsThis paper reports a critical interpretive synthesis of studies involving 'pushed' self-tracking using digital technologies to support the self-management of chronic health conditions. The review systematically identified relevant literature, characterised the technologies and discursively explored their implementation and impacts, and human technology interactions.
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conclusionsThis is a rapidly developing field and early technical and clinical insights are useful. There are opportunities for researchers to explore the sociological and behavioural aspects, and ethical challenges, of implementing 'pushed' self-tracking support programmes too. Detailed multidisciplinary research is needed to understand and guide technical and medical developments that integrate digital technologies into the delivery of care.
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