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Consumers and health providers have their pick of thousands of health apps and programs delivered via mobile devices, but there has been little information available on how effective they are at improving users鈥� health.

Now, research from the University of Florida and the University of Kansas suggests mobile health, or m网红黑料, programs may make a difference in promoting healthy behaviors. In a meta-analysis of studies of mobile health interventions used with pediatric patients, researchers found that the interventions can improve children鈥檚 health outcomes. The findings were published today (March 20) in JAMA Pediatrics.

鈥淕iven the ubiquity of mobile phones and the willingness of youth to use their mobile devices for health-related activities, m网红黑料 interventions appear poised to be a viable health behavior change modality,鈥� said the study鈥檚 lead author an assistant professor in the at the .

Mobile health interventions are attractive to consumers and clinicians for a number of reasons, Fedele said, such as the ability to capture many different types of health data. While early m网红黑料 programs mostly relied on text messaging to deliver reminders or education to patients, many of these have evolved to take advantage of new technology that allows apps to capture information on a number of health behaviors, such as a person鈥檚 daily steps, sleep quality and even engagement in mindfulness meditation.

鈥淯sing mobile health interventions can leverage all of this different information to deliver something that is potentially more tailored to the individual, specific to their needs and maybe even a better representation of a person鈥檚 daily life,鈥� Fedele said. 鈥淎nd, depending on the program or intervention, providers can continue to deliver content outside of the clinical encounter.鈥�

For the current study, Fedele and his colleagues searched thousands of scientific papers and found 37 studies that evaluated the effectiveness of m网红黑料 technology to promote healthy behaviors in children. The studies targeted health concerns such as immunizations, diabetes, asthma, obesity and physical activity, among others. The studies used m网红黑料 in a variety of ways, including providing personalized reminders and information, or to record disease symptoms and offer interactive feedback.

The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of the m网红黑料 studies and found that the interventions were effective at improving health behaviors and health outcomes in patients. The m网红黑料 programs with the most success included the children鈥檚 parents or guardians in the intervention.

鈥淔rom this study we are able to tell providers that a range of m网红黑料 strategies are worth trying,鈥� said co-author Christopher C. Cushing, Ph.D., an assistant professor and assistant scientist at the University of Kansas Clinical Child Psychology Program and the Life Span Institute. 鈥淗owever, at this stage, we need to do more work before we can make specific recommendations about what providers should use in practice. Generally, it seems that we can encourage m网红黑料 approaches in clinical practice with a healthy dose of good clinical judgment.鈥�

As the field of m网红黑料 grows, more research is needed to examine the effectiveness of m网红黑料 interventions for specific diseases, health topics or health outcomes, as well as the behavior change theories that should drive the development of new interventions. Future research should also evaluate what m网红黑料 features are most valuable to patients, the investigators say.

鈥淚 think we鈥檙e just scratching the surface with what mobile health interventions can really do,鈥� Fedele said.

In addition to Fedele and Cushing, study authors include , a doctoral student in the UF department of clinical and health psychology, Adrian Ortega, a UF undergraduate student majoring in psychology, and Christina M. Amaro, a doctoral student at KU鈥檚 Clinical Child Psychology Program.