Impact of Mobile Technology Solution on Self-Management in Patients with Hypertension: Advantages and Barriers

Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It is a condition that increases the high risk of heart, liver, and other diseases. Since hypertension is one of the biggest global public health issues, patients require more interventions to manage their blood pressure. The vast use of mobile phones and applications with medication features has turned a smartphone into a medical device. These tools are helpful for a physician in the treatment of hypertension. Mobile health applications are utilised to manage hypertension at the moment; however, there is a lack of information regarding their efficacy. Smartphones and their applications are evolving quickly hence the rise in the innovation of mobile health applications. Mobile-based applications are helpful in-patient education and reinforce the behaviour through constant reminders, medication, and appointment alarms. The main objective of this study is to determine the impact of mobile health applications on self-management in patients with hypertension and its advantages and disadvantages. We used publications from 2015 and later as a time frame and searched on the first five pages of Google Scholar, JSTOR, Hindawi, PubMed, and ResearchGate. We group all associated terms that might turn up articles on this subject in the search results. The total number of database records that we identified were 213, and the duplicate identified and removed were 117; hence the screened records were 96. The reports excluded based on abstract and title were 31. Articles with full text and have been accessed for final inclusion were 65. The excluded articles were 51, and the studies included in the qualitative analysis were 14.