Table 2.
Characteristics of studies using smartphone interventions with COPD patients.
| First author, (year) | COPDa stage | FEV1b, mean (SD), % predicted | Participant age (years), mean (SD), | Male sex, % |
Sample size (analyzed) |
No. of patients having an exacerbation | |||||
| IGc | CGd | IG | CG | IG | CG | IG | CG | IG | CG | ||
| Tabak, (2014) [24] |
All stages |
48.7 (16.7) |
56.4 (10.6) |
65.2 (9.0) | 67.9 (5.7) |
57% | 68% | 15 (10) |
15 (2) |
33 | N/Re |
| Pedone, (2013) [21] | II or III | 52.5 (14.9) | 55.4 (15.8) |
74.1 (6.4) | 75.4 (6.7) |
72% | 63% | 50 (39) |
49 (49) |
9 | 15 |
| Jehn, (2013) [23] |
II-IV | 50.2 (15) |
52.6 (17.5) |
64.1 (10.9) |
69.1 (9.2) |
81% | 73% | 32 (32) | 30 (30) | 7 | 22 |
| Halpin, (2011) [20] |
All stages | 48 (4) | 54 (3) | 68.5 (1.5) | 70.2 (1.6) | 74% | 73% | 40 (39) | 39 (38) | 23 | 26 |
| Nguyen, (2008) [19] |
All stages | 49.0 (16.8) | 50.3 (17.6) | 68.0 (8.3) | 70.9 (8.6) | 61% | 55% | 26 (20) | 24 (19) | 10 | N/R |
| Liu, (2008) [22] |
II or III | 45.2(3.2) | 46 (2.8) | 71.4 (1.7) | 72.8 (1.3) | 100% | 100% | 30 (24) | 30 (24) | 2 | 10 |
aCOPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
bFEV1: Forced Expiratory Volume in one second.
cIG: Intervention Group.
dCG: Control Group.
eN/R: not reported.