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Promoting child and adolescent health through wearable technology: A systematic review.

Wei Zhang, Keying Xiong, Chengyan Zhu, Richard Evans, Lijuan Zhou, Christine Podrini

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Review in Digital health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Wei ZhangSchool of Medicine and Health Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-0750
Keying XiongSchool of Medicine and Health Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Chengyan ZhuSchool of Political Science and Public Administration, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3879-9124
Richard EvansCollege of Digital Transformation, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Lijuan ZhouSchool of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China.
Christine PodriniThe Bio Arte Limited, San Gwann, SGN, Malta.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Wearable technology is used in healthcare to monitor the health of individuals. This study presents an updated systematic literature review of the use of wearable technology in promoting child and adolescent health, accompanied by recommendations for future research. Methods: This review focuses on studies involving children and adolescents aged between 2 and 18 years, regardless of their health condition or disabilities. Studies that were published from 2016 to 2024, and which met the inclusion criteria, were extracted from four academic databases (i.e. PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and Web of Science) using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol. Data on intervention purposes, interventions deployed, intervention duration, measurements, and the main outcomes of the studies were collected. Results: A total of 53 studies involving 14,852 participants were reviewed. They focused on various aspects, including the ownership and use of wearable devices ( Conclusions: The use of wearable technology by children and adolescents has proven to be both feasible and effective for health promotion. This systematic review summarizes existing research by exploring the use of wearable technology in promoting health across diverse youth populations, including healthy and unhealthy individuals. It examines health promotion at various stages of the disease continuum, including pre-disease prevention, in-disease treatment, and postoperative monitoring. Additionally, the review provides directions for future research.

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children and adolescentshealth promotionsystematic reviewwearable technology

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PMID38868368
PMCPMC11168039

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