Smartphone Applications Developed for Pediatrics and Their Effects on Children’s Health

Year 2021, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 24 - 30, 29.12.2021

Onur İşsever Selmin Şenol Hatice Bal Yılmaz Figen Yardımcı

https://doi.org/10.29228/aijhs.6

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Use of devices like smartphones, iPads and computers, which enable children to utilize mobile technologies, increases
day by day. This study has been conducted to compile original articles evaluating the smartphone applications built
for paediatrics. During the study, PubMed database was searched. Within the scope of the literature survey, ten articles
published with the aim of maintaining and promoting childrens’ health with mobile applications were reviewed. It is
safe to state that the use of mobile health applications on children is a new and limited concept. Although applications
and research are limited, the common result of these shows that the use of mobile health applications by professionals,
children and nurses has a promising and contributing potential for child health.

Keywords

Smartphone Application, Child, Diseases, Health

Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Üzerine Yapılandırılmış Akıllı Telefon Uygulamaları ve Çocuk Sağlığına Etkileri

Abstract

Mobil teknolojilerin çocuklar tarafından kullanımını sağlayan telefon, iPad, bilgisayarlar gün geçtikçe artmaktadır.
Çocukların akıllı telefon uygulamalarındaki sağlık verilerine erişim, sağlık profesyonellerinin (hekim, hemşire,
diyetisyen gibi) izlem ve tedavi sonuçları konusunda katkı sağlayabilir. Araştırma; çocuk sağlığı ve hastalıkları ile
ilgili yapılmış akıllı telefon uygulamalarını ele alan orijinal makaleleri incelemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Literatür
taramasında, Pubmed veri tabanı kullanılmıştır. Literatür taraması kapsamında mobil uygulamalarla çocuk sağlığını
korumayı ve geliştirmeyi hedefleyen yayınlanmış on makale incelenmiştir. Mobil sağlık uygulamalarının çocuk
sağlığı üzerine kullanımının yeni ve sınırlı olduğu söylenebilir. Uygulamalar ve yürütülen araştırmalar sınırlı olmakla
birlikte, bunların ortak sonucu mobil sağlık uygulamalarının profesyoneller, çocuklar ve hemşireler tarafından
kullanılmasının çocuk sağlığı için umut verici ve katkı sağlama potansiyeli olduğunu göstermektedir.

Keywords

Akıllı telefon uygulamaları, Çocuk, Hastalık, Sağlık

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