| خلاصه مقاله | Background: The COVID-19 outbreak have affected safety of health care workers (HCW) and their families. To resolve the current challenge, mobile health (m-health) can play a significant role to protect HCW and their families.
Objectives: This review aimed to identify m-health capabilities to protect of HCW and their families during COVID-19 outbreaks. It also highlights the challenges and experiences to the rapid implementation of m-health solutions to support HCW and their families during this situation.
Materials and Methods: A comprehensive search of electronic databases, including PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Web of Science and Google Scholar by related keywords was conducted. Search terms included HCW (and synonyms), m-health (and synonyms), and COVID-19 (and synonyms). Inclusion criteria included articles that highlights an m-health intervention to support of HCW and their families during COVID-19 outbreaks, published in English language from December 31, 2019 to December 2020 and studies of any research design and methodology published in peer reviewed journals. Two reviewers independently assessed search results, extracted data, and assessed the quality of the included studies. Finally, narrative synthesis was conducted to report the findings.
Results: Of the 1021 articles initially identified as relating to the topic, 12 articles met the inclusion criteria. Our data analysis showed all m-health interventions has positive effect on health problems for HCW and their families. HCWs can be used the m-health tools during current outbreak for providing safety services for patients, keeping social distancing, decrease mental health problems and finally diminish the infection transmission among family’s.
Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for m-health to support HCW, but the challenges of designing m-health technology should be solved. Also, this review has the potential to make a significant impact on safety of HCW and their family’s through presenting insights for importance of deploying m-health technology. |