Mobile App Features for Diabetic Kidney Disease Self-Management

Showcasing a scoping review of 11 studies on mobile applications for self-management of diabetic kidney disease, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease. It identifies four core functional domains across the reviewed apps, including self-care monitoring and patient support.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of the four core functional domains (self-care monitoring, educational components, patient support and motivation, performance incentives) across the 11 reviewed mobile apps.
• Compare the integration of wearable devices and supportive hardware (e.g., Bluetooth glucometers) between apps focused on different conditions (CKD, DKD, diabetes).
• Investigate the limited inclusion of real-time communication features with healthcare providers and gamification strategies among the reviewed apps.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a systematic scoping review following JBI methodology and PRISMA-ScR guidelines, screening 3521 records.
• Findings are quantified, reporting percentages for four identified core functional domains across 11 included studies.
• The dataset has a clear, open license (CC BY 4.0) and is associated with peer-reviewed research.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small in scale (9.5 KB), indicating limited raw data or summary statistics rather than a large primary dataset.
• The scope is limited to 11 studies, which may not represent the full landscape of available mobile applications for these conditions.
• The underlying studies may have geographic or demographic biases not detailed in this summary data.

Provenance

Source

Scoping review conducted by Hasmawati Yahya, sourced from figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic literature review of five databases (PubMed, Scopus, SAGE Journals, ScienceDirect, Web of Science) from inception to February 2025.

Time Range

Literature search covered records from database inception to February 26, 2025.

Freshness

The review includes literature searched up to February 26, 2025, and the dataset was last updated in March 2026.