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01-03-2015 | Review Article - Educational Review

Future perspectives of Smartphone applications for rheumatic diseases self-management

Authors: Ana Rita Pereira Azevedo, Hugo Manuel Lopes de Sousa, Joaquim António Faria Monteiro, Aurea Rosa Nunes Pereira Lima

Published in: Rheumatology International | Issue 3/2015

Abstract

Rheumatic diseases (RD) self-management interventions are designed to improve health-related quality of life, health care utilization, and perceived self-efficacy. Despite these demonstrated good results, there are several issues that hinder or render less appealing these interventions. One economically and socially viable solution is exploiting the potential of Smartphone technology. This potential comes from Smartphones pervasive presence in actual society, combined with the advantages of being personal, intuitive, and computationally powerful, with capability to support applications and assist its user throughout different activities of daily living and environments persistently. With their global acceptance increasing quickly, there is a great opportunity for mobile health in using Smartphone applications for RD self-management. Besides the potential of such applications, research on the development and evaluation of such applications is in the early stages. Therefore, it is important to foresee its future applicability in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century.

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Title: Future perspectives of Smartphone applications for rheumatic diseases self-management
Authors: Ana Rita Pereira Azevedo
Hugo Manuel Lopes de Sousa
Joaquim António Faria Monteiro
Aurea Rosa Nunes Pereira Lima
Publication date: 01-03-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Rheumatology International / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0172-8172
Electronic ISSN: 1437-160X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-014-3117-9

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