Revisión sistemática de instrumentos que evalúan la calidad de aplicaciones móviles de salud

Abstract

The download of the mobile applications (apps) aimed at fostering healthy habits in the general population has increased significantly in recent years. However, the majority of these apps are not subject to quality regulation processes, and the available instruments to assess the quality seem to be obsolete. This review has been made to know the state of the art about the processes of design, construction, validation and main results obtained in empirical studies about the instruments for assessing the quality of said apps, all this in order to identify the main dimensions and common indicators. Searches have been conducted in four databases with high impact. It concludes that is an interest current topic in scientific literature. From 11 documents which have been included, 17 dimensions and 97 indicators have been considered. Privacy and security-related issues were only included in two documents. In short, it has been possible to establish a significant and updated list that may be the basis for constructing an evaluation framework that allows a comprehensive study of these apps, considering that many of the assessment instruments have not been designed for the general population.