Effectiveness of Digital Health Interventions to Improve Self-Care in Patients With Chronic Diseases: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Digital tools like apps and remote monitoring help people manage chronic diseases like diabetes and heart failure more consistently over time.
This systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs evaluates digital health interventions (apps, telemonitoring, wearables) for chronic disease self-care improvement, addressing one of the largest gaps in healthcare delivery — sustainable long-term self-management of conditions like heart failure and type 2 diabetes. The findings have broad applicability to cardiometabolic disease management at scale.
What the study was
- Study design
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs
- Population
- Adults with chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, COPD, HF
- Category
- Public Health
- Maturity
- Validated
- Journal
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
Why it surfaced
Systematic review + meta-analysis of RCTs (highest evidence tier) on digital health for chronic disease self-care has direct applicability to cardiometabolic disease management programs. JMIR is a leading digital health journal. Abstract was truncated before results; classification_confidence = medium.
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