JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is prevalent in hemodialysis (HD) patients but remains difficult to diagnose due to unreliable ankle-brachial index (ABI) measurements caused by vascular calcification. We hypothesized that monitoring foot temperatures and their changes during HD, provoked by hemodynamic shifts, could serve as a novel diagnostic tool for detecting severe PAD.

Mobile health interventions have the potential to motivate healthy behaviors. Optimal strategies for engaging patients in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) through mobile health interventions remain unclear.

Poor medication adherence is a critical impediment to effective chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management and remains challenging to track in routine care. Digital therapeutic interventions may improve chronic disease management through remote monitoring and patient education. However, most existing digital interventions focus on individual components of disease management, and evidence from longer-term pragmatic randomized controlled trials evaluating integrated digital therapeutics in routine clinical practice remains limited.

Smartphone-based self-assessment methods, such as ecological momentary assessment (EMA), are increasingly used to measure perceived stress in research and emerging clinical applications. However, the proliferation of studies and methods has made it difficult for researchers and practitioners to maintain an overview and make informed methodological choices. An updated synthesis of smartphone-based self-report methods is therefore needed.

Discriminating mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from subjective cognitive decline (SCD), and healthy controls (HC) remains challenging. Digital tools may overcome paper-and-pencil screening’s limitations.

Early childhood caries (ECC) is a prevalent yet preventable disease that significantly impacts young children’s health and quality of life. The World Health Organization’s highlights the potential of mobile health programs to enhance engagement and support sustained oral health behavior change.

Chronic disease and comorbid mental health problems disproportionately affect rural and underserved populations. Digital self-management programs are potentially scalable, but evaluations often focus on narrow outcomes.

Recovery after total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is typically assessed with infrequent clinic-based evaluations that may not reflect patients’ everyday mobility. Smartphone inertial sensors enable scalable, repeated gait measurement in real-world settings, but the extent to which prompted walking tests reflect daily life walking during recovery is not well defined.

Prenatal depression and anxiety have emerged as pressing global public health challenges. In the digital era, excessive smartphone use may exert complex effects on maternal mental health. Prior research has predominantly focused on adolescents, whereas evidence among pregnant women, particularly regarding total weekly use and use during critical circadian windows, such as after waking and before bedtime, remains limited. Furthermore, the mediating role of sleep quality in these associations has yet to be systematically examined.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide, yet participation in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) remains suboptimal. Wrist-worn wearables may support fully remote or hybrid CR through activity monitoring and individualized feedback, but the effectiveness and consistency of benefits remain uncertain.

Mobile health (mHealth) apps have become important tools for HIV/AIDS management. Although the Mobile App Rating Scale and its user version are widely used, how different stakeholder groups combine quality dimensions into overall judgments remains unclear. Discrepancies between researcher and patient evaluations may affect app adoption and clinical effectiveness.

AI-based tools for oral cancer screening have shown promising performance in curated image datasets, but their performance in real-world mobile community screening workflows remains less clear.