Mobile App Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence Among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials
Authors' conclusion
Mobile apps appear to be effective interventions to help improve medication adherence in T2DM patients compared with conventional care strategies. The features of the App to improvise medical adherence cannot be defined based on the meta-analysis because of heterogeneity of study designs and less number of sample size. Systematically planned studies would set up applicability of mobile apps in the clinical management of T2DM.
Study context
- Population
- T2D patients; clinical trials published January 2008–December 2020 (PubMed, Cochrane Library, Google Scholar)
- Participants
- 649 patients7 clinical studies
- Comparison
- Mobile app-based interventions vs conventional care
- Outcome
- Medication adherence
Methodological detailsrisk of bias assessed with Cochrane Handbook quality rating tool
- Risk of bias assessed with Cochrane Handbook quality rating tool
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
All studies showed improvements in adherence
7 studies
Statistically significant improvements in adherence measures
3 studies
Further pooled results
Study characteristics
- Median sample size (range 41-247)
- 58
- Median age of participants (range 48-69.4), years
- 53.2
Risk of bias
- Studies deemed unclear in risk of bias; most common source was absence of objective outcome assessment
Original publication
Mobile App Interventions to Improve Medication Adherence Among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials. J Diabetes Sci Technol. Published 3 December 2021. doi:10.
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