Analysis of research status quo,research hotspots and research frontier of mobile health and its inspiration to nursing
Chen Xuemei
Zhou Lanshu
Abstract：Objective:To probe into the research status quo,research hotspots and research frontier of mobile health,so as to provide a theoretical basis for Chinese nurses carrying out mobile health related research and practice.Methods:Bibliometrics,co-word analysis,cluster analysis,citation analysis were used,the mobile health related literatures in PubMed database,Science of Citation Index database were analyzed by using BI-COMB and SPSS18.0 software.Results:In recent years,amount of documents in mobile health field showed a rapid growth trend.More than 70％ of the total literatures were published in three countries including the United States,Canada and the United Kingdom.Mobile health research hotspots included research and development of mobile health equipment and systems.Mobile health was used for carrying out health education,health promotion,chronic disease management,cancer care,and mobile health measures were used to provide community health services.The research frontier included research on mobile health engineering technology,guidelines or specifications published by authoritative organizations in the field of mobile health,acceptance degree and preferences of users for mobile health,quality assessment of mobile health APP,effect evaIuation of mobile health,thinking and review of mobile health.Conclusions:Mobile health was in the stage of vigorous development.Nursing staff in China should carry out mobile health research and practice according to international research hotspots,research frontier and clinical needs,and improve research level and research scope,so as to improve nursing quality.
Keywords：mobile healthresearch status quoresearch focusresearch frontierliterature analysisnursing
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 658-665 )