The review aimed at assessing the general characteristics and mapping of the Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) in health and lifestyle-based apps. The search was conducted in February 2021 in India using the Apple App Store database to identify health and lifestyle apps. Keywords used for the search were Nutrition, Obesity, Cholesterol, Diabetes, Hypertension, Exercise, and Yoga. A total of 47 apps were included for further analysis.

The study aimed to review the available apps on hypertension/high blood pressure and DASH Diet, and investigate their main functional and analytical characteristics. The search was conducted in February 2021 in India using the Google Play Store database to identify currently available Android-based apps related to self-management of hypertension/ high blood pressure. Keywords used were: Hypertension’, ‘High Blood Pressure’, ‘DASH Diet’, ‘Hypertension Diet’, and ‘Blood pressure diet’. A total of

The study aimed to assess various pregnancy diet apps available in the google play store, along with the assessment of behavior change techniques (BCTs) and pregnancy-specific nutrition information. The search was conducted in February 2021 using the Google Play Store on m-Health apps related to pregnancy diet. Using the search term ‘Pregnancy diet apps’, 250 apps were retrieved. On screening based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, 50 relevant apps were

The objective of the study was to comprehensively assess and evaluate the characteristics and features of malnutrition applications available in the Google Play Store. To evaluate the availability of health applications for Malnutrition, a search was conducted in February 2021 on the Google Play Store using Google Chrome as the browser. The search term entered in Google play store was “Malnutrition”.

The study aimed to evaluate the quality and readability of diabetes-related online health information. Webpages were gathered by using the keywords “Diabetes mellitus”, “Diabetes mellitus causes”, “Diabetes mellitus diagnosis”, “Diabetes mellitus prevention”, and “Diabetes mellitus management” on Google. Previously validated DISCERN and Flesch-Kincaid Tools were used by the four raters to assess 37 unique websites. Overall DISCERN score (out of 80) for 37 included websites was 49.40 ± 5.83 denoting ‘fair’ quality

The Objective of our study was to evaluate the quality and readability of health information on the internet about Mets. The websites were gathered using keywords “Metabolic syndrome”, “Metabolic syndrome causes”, “Metabolic syndrome diagnosis”, “Metabolic syndrome prevention”, and “Metabolic syndrome management” on the search engine Google. Twenty-six unique websites were evaluated by five raters using validated tools. THE mean DISCERN score (out of 80) for all websites was 56.51 ±