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Future perspectives of Smartphone applications for rheumatic diseases self-management

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Rheumatic diseases (RD) self-management interventions are designed to improve health-related quality of life, health care utilization, and perceived self-efficacy. Despite these demonstrated good results, there are several issues that hinder or render less appealing these interventions. One economically and socially viable solution is exploiting the potential of Smartphone technology. This potential comes from Smartphones pervasive presence in actual society, combined with the advantages of being personal, intuitive, and computationally powerful, with capability to support applications and assist its user throughout different activities of daily living and environments persistently. With their global acceptance increasing quickly, there is a great opportunity for mobile health in using Smartphone applications for RD self-management. Besides the potential of such applications, research on the development and evaluation of such applications is in the early stages. Therefore, it is important to foresee its future applicability in order to meet the needs of the twenty-first century.

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Azevedo, A.R.P., de Sousa, H.M.L., Monteiro, J.A.F. et al. Future perspectives of Smartphone applications for rheumatic diseases self-management. Rheumatol Int 35, 419–431 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-014-3117-9

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