Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 3396: Mobile App Interventions for Parkinson & rsquo;s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Stroke: A Systematic Literature Review

Sensors, Vol. 23, Pages 3396: Mobile App Interventions for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and Stroke: A Systematic Literature Review Sensors doi: 10.3390/s23073396 Authors: Andreas Triantafyllidis Sofia Segkouli Stelios Zygouris Christina Michailidou Konstantinos Avgerinakis Evangelia Fappa Sophia Vassiliades Anastasia Bougea Nikos Papagiannakis Ioannis Katakis Evangelos Mathioudis Alexandru Sorici Lidia Bajenaru Valentina Tageo Francesco Camonita Christoniki Magga-Nteve Stefanos Vrochidis Ludovico Pedullà Giampaolo Brichetto Panagiotis Tsakanikas Konstantinos Votis Dimitrios Tzovaras Central nervous system diseases (CNSDs) lead to significant disability worldwide. Mobile app interventions have recently shown the potential to facilitate monitoring and medical management of patients with CNSDs. In this direction, the characteristics of the mobile apps used in research studies and their level of clinical effectiveness need to be explored in order to advance the multidisciplinary research required in the field of mobile app interventions for CNSDs. A systematic review of mobile app interventions for three major CNSDs, i.e., Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple sclerosis (MS), and stroke, which impose significant burden on people and health care systems around the globe, is presented. A literature search in the bibliographic databases of PubMed and Scopus was performed. Identified studies were asses...
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