Patient Self-Management Of Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Using Mobile Health Applications: A Systematic Literature Review Of The Requirements

Abstract

Objective: The increasing growth of the creation and use of mobile health applications (mHealth apps) shows the importance of these applications for remote health control and self-management of people with chronic diseases such as cystic fibrosis (CF). To increase effectiveness, these programs should use requirements as the foundation of the applications. The purpose of this review was to extract requirements from research related to cystic fibrosis self-management based on mHealth.

Methods: Related keywords were searched in, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus. Then, articles have assessed and selected using the inclusion and exclusion criteria and finally, the requirements were extracted from this research.

Results: Finally, 11 articles were included in the study and CF self-management system requirements and their repetition in two categories of Core features and Non-functional were examined to determine the importance of each in different articles. Diary keeping, communication with HPs, and nutrition management were identified as the most common requirements for core features, and motivation and customization were identified as the most common non-functional requirements.

Conclusion:  Patient Self-Management of CF Using Mobile Health Applications, have the necessary potential to facilitate self-care in patients, and attention to the important requirements for creating such systems should be a priority. Also, the importance of requirements can be changed according to which age group these systems are designed for.