Report on Health Intervention for Asthma Management

Tailoring and personalisation of
applications in health
intervention for asthma
management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................1
KEYWORDS...................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
METHODS......................................................................................................................................1
RESULTS........................................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

LITERATURE REVIEW
ABSTRACT
People who suffered from asthma have to adapt their long term condition within the
context of their daily life. They have to manage their work accordingly, they must take
medicines regularly, must have adequate supply of inhalers, avoid visiting dusty place in order to
reduce the effect of asthma and cope up with the variability of asthma. It is essential for the
patient to understand when their asthma deteriorating, they have to make decisions accordingly
regarding when to take treatment, from where to take treatment or to seek professional help. In
the systematic review researcher has selected various articles who have conducted study on the
personalisation applications in health interventions for managing asthma.
KEYWORDS
Tailoring mobile application, personalised medication, self education for asthma, asthma control,
e-Health, asthma management, public health interventions, desktop resources and applications,
self monitoring for asthma, m-Health, Android, iPhone, mobile health
INTRODUCTION
Self management and self education are very helpful in order to get rid of asthma or
symptoms of asthma efficiently. Evolution of technologies considered as boon to healthcare
sector and for patients who resists visiting health care centre for check up. Many mobile
applications and desktop applications has been innovated by professionals which guide the
patient to prepare self management plan and things to follow in order to get rid of asthma. In this
context, the systematic review aid in providing detail understanding about the self management
and self education in order to prevent or control asthma with the help of different mobile and
desktop applications. In the following review, researcher aims to analyse articles which were
written by senior researchers regarding the subject matter. Proper methods will be use and
appropriate study will be produce by the researcher.
METHODS
In order to conduct the study, a search was carried out in order to obtain relevant set of
articles. It depicted the use of database search done through several online database. The articles
were majorly selected from Google Scholar and Pub-Med. The search was conducted on April
2018 and articles published in the year between 2010 to 2018 were selected. In order to identify

more refined set of articles, a keyword research has been conducted by using 2 main Boolean
operators. Following search string was taken into consideration using AND- OR: (“asthma
management OR asthma control OR self-management of chronic disease”) AND (“personalized
medication OR tailored mobile application”) AND (“public health intervention OR interactive
health communication”) AND (“e-Health OR m-Health”).
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