Accepted for/Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Date Submitted: Apr 15, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Apr 15, 2020 - May 15, 2020
Date Accepted: Oct 13, 2020
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Scientific Publication Patterns of Mobile Technologies and Apps for PTSD Treatment: A bibliometric Co-word Analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Mobile applications viewed as a promising opportunity to provide support for patients who have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The authors analyzed papers to find out the patterns of research domains in mobile applications-technologies and PTSD treatment. The development of mobile technologies and apps show similar trends in PTSD treatment. Therefore this emerging research field has been found interesting and attractive to keep it in the research agenda. Consequently, authors have planned various research settings for current and further studies.
Objective:
This research aims to explore the scientific patterns of mobile technologies for PTSD treatment in scholarly publications and analyze the findings to suggest further studies in an emerging research field.
Methods:
The bibliometric analysis employed such as identifying publication patterns, most important keywords, trends for the topicality, and text analysis along with word cloud for the period of last decade (2010 to 2019). In this study, research questions formed based on the relevant literature. They then concentrated on highly ranked sources, finally with the proven bibliometric approach the data retrieved from Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics).
Results:
A total of 64 studies found concerning the research domains. The vast majority of the papers written in the English language (63 documents, 98.43%) whereas the French (1 article, 1.56%) by 323 authors/co-authors from 11 different countries leading the USA, then followed by England, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, Australia, France, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, and Vietnam. The distribution of publications shown as; peer-reviewed journal articles n=48 papers (75.00%), reviews n=8 papers (12.50%), meeting abstract n=5 papers (7.81%), news item n=2 papers (3.13%), and proceedings n=1 papers (1.56%), and mean of data for the period is n=6.4 per year. The increased number of publications in the period of 2016 to 2019 showed the 100% raise and the mean of the period also n=13.33.
Conclusions:
The research revealed that, although the early years of publication count as shown low, recent years (from 2016) represent an overall increase in research domains. The main contribution of the findings indicates that m-Health tools, in combination with traditional treatment for mental disorders among veterans, increase the efficiency of health intervention, including reducing PTSD symptoms, improving life quality, conduct intervention evaluation, and monitoring of improvements. Besides, mobile apps and technologies can be used as supportive tools in managing pain, anger, stress, and sleep disturbance. This paper would be useful for researchers to obtain an overview of the publication trends on research domains to be concerned for further studies and shows the potential gaps in those fields. Clinical Trial: None
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