Systematic Review of Digital Health Interventions for PCOS, 10 Trials Analyzed

Ten randomized controlled trials with 930 participants were analyzed to evaluate the effects of digital health interventions on women with polycystic ovarian syndrome. The meta-analysis, published by Hui-fang Zeng in 2026, reports standardized mean differences for outcomes including BMI, waist circumference, and health-promoting lifestyle scores. The review protocol is registered with PROSPERO under identifier CRD420251030598.

Use Cases

• Training meta-analysis models based on pooled effect sizes and confidence intervals reported in the results.
• Benchmarking digital health intervention efficacy for anthropometric measures like BMI and waist circumference.
• Analyzing the impact of interventions on behavioral domains such as physical activity, stress management, and health responsibility.
• Studying the temporal effects of interventions using short-term (≤3 months) and medium-term (3–6 months) outcome data.

Strengths

• Includes data from 10 trials with a total of 930 participants, providing a quantitative synthesis.
• Reports specific effect sizes (MD, SMD) with 95% confidence intervals and I² statistics for heterogeneity across multiple health outcomes.
• Uses a registered systematic review protocol (PROSPERO CRD420251030598) and the GRADE approach for assessing evidence certainty.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 19.0 KB DOCX file containing a review article; the underlying trial-level data is not provided.
• Row count and column-level documentation for any extracted data are unknown.
• The geographic and demographic scope of the included trials is not specified in the provided metadata.

Provenance

Source

Hui-fang Zeng, published on figshare.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of five databases from inception to April 2025.

Time Range

Trials included from database inception to April 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 07:37:00.