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ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Isn't There an App for That? The Role of Smartphone and Tablet Applications for Asthma Education and Self-Management in Adolescents.

Antonia O'Connor, Andrew Tai, Kristin Carson-Chahhoud

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Review in Children (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Antonia O'ConnorRespiratory and Sleep Department, Women's and Children's Hospital, 72 King Williams Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8938-3842
Andrew TaiRespiratory and Sleep Department, Women's and Children's Hospital, 72 King Williams Road, North Adelaide, SA 5006, Australia.
Kristin Carson-ChahhoudAdelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building, Corner of North Terrace & George Street, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide, with a substantial proportion of the asthma population being children and adolescents. Self-management is recognized as a key component to asthma management, with multiple international guidelines emphasizing the need for adequate self-management skills for good asthma control. Unfortunately, the uptake amongst young people and adolescents is low, with often suboptimal engagement to self-management education and skills contributing to poor adherence to medication as well as poor perception of asthma symptoms. Innovative solutions to deliver education and self-management to adolescents are clearly needed. mHealth is the use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet devices to improve healthcare and has been used in multiple chronic diseases. This review articles explores the current use of mHealth in asthma, specifically smartphone and tablet applications as a generation-appropriate, accessible delivery modality for provision of asthma education and self-management interventions in adolescents. Current evidence gaps are also highlighted, which should be addressed in future research.

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adolescentsasthma impactbronchial asthmamobile healthself-managementsmartphonetablettechnology

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PMID34572218
PMCPMC8467082

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