Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Sep 6, 2023
Date Accepted: Sep 21, 2023
Mapping Respiratory Health Digital Interventions in South and Southeast Asia: Protocol for a Scoping Review
ABSTRACT
Background:
The last two decades have been a time of exponential growth and maturation for digital health while the global burden of respiratory disease continues to grow worldwide. Leveraging digital health interventions to manage and mitigate respiratory disease and its adverse health effects presents itself as an obvious path forward.
Objective:
To understand the current digital landscape and enabling environment around respiratory health to reduce costs, avoid duplication, and understand the comprehensiveness of digital health interventions.
Methods:
This study will follow a scoping review methodology as outlined by Arksey and O’Malley, the Joanna Briggs Institute, and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist. Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, PakiMedNet, and MyMedR databases will be searched along with key websites, repositories, and grey literature databases. The terms ‘respiratory health’, ‘digital health’, ‘South Asia’, ‘Southeast Asia’ and their related terms will be searched. The results will be screened for duplicates and then against the inclusion and exclusion criteria. For the studies included, data will be extracted, collated and analysed.
Results:
Results will be presented following the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) classification of digital health interventions to categorise interventions in a standardised format and the mobile health (mHealth) evidence reporting and assessment (mERA) checklist to report on the effectiveness of interventions. Further exposition of the evidence extracted will be presented through narrative synthesis.
Conclusions:
As digital health interventions continue to proliferate, the need to understand the current landscape becomes more pertinent. Through this review, we will map out digital health interventions in a systematic way as the first step required in any well-informed and thought-out design and deployment of digital health tools
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