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ToolsCOURT, Rosemary Jane, SWALLOW, Veronica, EL-YOUSFI, Sarab, GRAY-BURROWS, Kara, SOTIR, Fiona, WHEELER, Gemma, KELLAR, Ian, LEE, Jia Mang, MITCHELL, Robyn, MLYNARCZYK, Wiktoria, RAMAVATH, Arnav, DIMITRI, Paul, PHILLIPS, Bob, PRODGERS, Lucy, POWNALL, Madeleine, KOWALCZYK, Marcin, BRANCHFLOWER, Jacob, POWELL, Lauren, BHANBHRO, Sadiq, WEIGHALL, Anna and MARTIN-KERRY, Jacqueline (2024). Children and young people’s preferences and needs when using health technology to self-manage a long-term condition: a scoping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 109 (10), 826-835. [Article]
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Background
The use of patient-facing health technologies to manage long-term conditions (LTCs) is increasing; however, children and young people (CYP) may have preferences about health technologies which they interact or engage with, that influence their decision to use these technologies.
Aims
To identify CYP’s reported preferences about health technologies to self-manage LTCs.
Methods
We undertook a scoping review, searching MEDLINE, PsycINFO and CINAHL in July 2021. Searches were limited to papers published between January 2015 and July 2021. We included any health technologies used to manage physical and mental LTCs. Qualitative content analysis of study data was undertaken to categorise data into themes and quantitative data were described and visually represented. We engaged CYP with LTCs to support the review design, interpretation of findings and development of recommendations.
Results
161 journal articles were included, describing preferences of CYP. Most included studies were undertaken in high-income countries. CYP’s main preferences and needs were: design and functionality; privacy and sharing; customisation and personalisation of the technology; and interaction options within the technology.
Conclusions
This review highlights important preferences and needs that CYP may have before using technologies to self-manage their LTC. These should be considered when developing technology for this population. Future research should involve CYP throughout the development of the technologies, from identifying their unmet needs through to final design, development, evaluation and implementation of the intervention.
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