A Systematic Review on Mobile Health Applications’ Education Program for Patients Taking Oral Anticoagulants

Insil Jang
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Insil Jang: Department of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 17, 1-15

Abstract: Warfarin is widely used as an oral anticoagulant. However, it is difficult to manage patients due to its narrow therapeutic range and individualized differences. Using controlled trials and real-world observational studies, this systematic review aimed to analyze health education’s impact among patients on warfarin therapy by mobile application. Smartphone and tablet applications have the potential to actively educate patients by providing them with timely information through push notifications. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Cochrane electronic databases were searched using the keywords “anticoagulants,” “warfarin”, “mobile application”, and “smartphone” up to May 2020. Of the 414 articles obtained, 12 articles met the inclusion criteria for this review. The education and self-management programs using the mobile health application had diverse contents. A meta-analysis was not deemed appropriate because of the heterogeneity of populations, interventions, and outcomes. Thus, a narrative synthesis is presented instead. This review demonstrates that educating patients for anticoagulation management through their smartphones or tablets improves their knowledge levels, medication or treatment adherence, satisfaction, and clinical outcomes. Moreover, it has a positive effect on continuing health care. Future research concerning patients taking warfarin should include key self-management outcomes in larger, more rigorously designed studies, allowing for comparisons across studies. This study proposes a continuous application of timely education through smartphone applications to the current medical and nursing practice.

Keywords: systematic review; oral anticoagulants; nursing; application; self-management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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