Paper Info
Title
The prevalence and usage of mobile health applications among mental health patients in Saudi Arabia.
Abstract
•Mobile applications have provided researchers from all over the world with the opportunity to discover new methods of enabling and engaging patients.•It is important to explore the prevalence of mobile health applications for mental health patients and to measure their interest and willingness to use their smartphones to record and track their own health.•Using interactive mobile applications for patients with depression and anxiety may unlock greater benefits to patients and providers.•Empowering patients to access, interact, record events, and be part of the care provided is a major benefit to the health care system delivery in general.•The development of mental health related mobile application should consider age, language, disease specificity, privacy, security and means of collecting data and analyzing them.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.cmpb.2017.12.002
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mobile applications,Mental health,Engaging and enabling patients,Saudi Arabia
Health care,Gerontology,Social network,Age groups,Computer science,Anxiety,mHealth,Mental health,Mobile phone,Statistics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
156
0169-2607
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nora Attallah100.68
Mohamed Khalifa2119.64
Ashraf El Metwally302.37
Mowafa S. Househ411631.32