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MOBILE & WIRELESS HEALTH
A Systematic Review of Smartphone Applications Available for Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID19) and the Assessment of their Quality Using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) Samira Davalbhakta 1 & Shailesh Advani 2 & Shobhit Kumar 3 & Vishwesh Agarwal 4 & Samruddhi Bhoyar 5 & Elizabeth Fedirko 5 & Durga Prasanna Misra 6 & Ashish Goel 7 & Latika Gupta 6,8 & Vikas Agarwal 6 Received: 3 July 2020 / Accepted: 28 July 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The global impact of COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid development and utilization of mobile health applications. These are addressing the unmet needs of healthcare and public health system including contact tracing, health information dissemination, symptom checking and providing tools for training healthcare providers. Here we provide an overview of mobile applications being currently utilized for COVID-19 and their assessment using the Mobile Application Rating Scale. We performed a systematic review of the literature and mobile platforms to assess mobile applications currently utilized for COVID-19, and a quality assessment of these applications using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS) for overall quality, Engagement, Functionality, Aesthetics, and Information. Finally, we provide an overview of the key salient features that should be included in mobile applications being developed for future use. Our search identified 63 apps that are currently being used for COVID-19. Of these, 25 were selected from the Google play store and Apple App store in India, and 19 each from the UK and US. 18 apps were developed for sharing up to date information on COVID-19, and 8 were used for contact tracing while 9 apps showed features of both. On MARS Scale, overall scores ranged from 2.4 to 4.8 with apps scoring high in areas of functionality and lower in Engagement. Future steps should involve developing and testing of mobile applications using assessment tools like the MARS scale and the study of their impact on health behaviours and outcomes. Keywords Smartphone application . COVID-19 . Pandemic . Contact tracing . Mobile application rating scale
Samira Davalbhakta and Shailesh Advani are Joint First authors This article is part of the Topical Collection on Mobile & Wireless Health Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-020-01633-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Latika Gupta [email protected] 1
Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Government Medical College and Sassoon General Hospitals, Pune, India
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Social Behavioural Research Unit, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, India
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Mahatma Gandhi Missions Medical College, Navi Mumbai, India
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA
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Department of Clinical Immunology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow,
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