Psycho-social aspects of personal health monitoring: a descriptive literature review.
We aimed at providing a short review on already published studies addressing psycho-social issues of personal health monitoring (PHM). Both core questions addressed within this review are: What is the impact of PHM on intended psycho-social and health-related outcomes? And which psycho-social issues affected by or related to PHM have already been investigated? This descriptive review based on a literature search using various databases (Psycinfo, Psyndex, Pubmed, SSCI). Resulting 428 abstracts were coded regarding their psycho-social content. Inspection of results was carried out along the relevance of the papers regarding psycho-social issues. Research in PHM focuses on telemonitoring and smart home applications: Tele-monitoring studies are directed to outcome-related questions, smart home studies to feasibility issues. Despite of technological matters, comparability of both systems in psycho-social issues is lacking. Tele-monitoring has been proven for impact on patient groups with chronic diseases, yet smart home still lacks evidence in health-related and psycho-social matters. Smart home applications have been investigated with respect to attitudes, perceptions and concerns of end-users, telemonitoring regarding acceptance and adherence.
Department of Health and Prevention, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald.
Holger
H
Muehlan
Silke
S
Schmidt
D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000523:psychology*; D059026:Diagnostic Self Evaluation; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000523:psychology*; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D011584:Psychology; D017216:Telemedicine