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. 2025 Apr 16;11:e64208. doi: 10.2196/64208

Table 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria of this study.

Inclusion criteria Exclusion criteria
Population and conditions
  • Patients with cancer aged 18 years and older.

  • Patients diagnosed with cancer.

  • Patients with cancer taking oral SACTsa.

  • Patients with cancer including pediatrics, children, adolescents, neonates, or infants.

  • Studies that include mixed age groups of participants with cancer.

  • Patients with cancer taking nonoral SACTsa.

  • Patients with cancer exclusively receiving injectable SACTsa.

Intervention and comparator
  • The use of digital interventions such as:

  1. Mobile apps

  2. Web-based platforms

  3. Wearable devices

  4. Telemedicine interventions

  5. Reminder systems (eg, text message reminders)

  6. Virtual support groups or web-based communities

  • Comparator: standard or usual care without digital interventions.

  • Studies that use nondigital interventions to improve adherence.

  • Studies with no suitable or appropriate comparator.

Outcome
  • Adherence measures such as:

  1. Medication possession ratio

  2. Proportion of days covered

  3. Self-reported adherence measures (eg, questionnaires and surveys)

  4. Pharmacy refill data

  5. Medication event monitoring systems (eg, smart pill bottles and electronic pill caps)

  6. Biological markers

  • The study does not contain outcome measures related to adherence.

  • Adherence measures are based solely on subjective reporting (unless validated self-reported measures were used).

Study type
  • Human studies

  • Animal or in vitro studies

Language
  • English

  • Non-English language

Publication
  • Randomized controlled trials and clinical trials (comparative interventional trials)

  • Review papers, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, cross-sectional studies, case-control studies, pilot studies, feasibility studies, editorials, commentaries, letters, opinion pieces, conference abstracts, gray literature, and non–peer-reviewed sources.

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SACTs: systemic anticancer therapies.