| Apps | Digital applications |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| HIC | High-income countries |
| WHO | World Health Organisation |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| CINAHL | Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature |
| PICOS | Population, intervention, comparison, outcome, and study design |
| RCT | Randomised controlled trials |
| US | United States |
| GDM | Gestational diabetes mellitus |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| CI | Confidence interval |