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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2019 Oct 16;184:105114. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105114

Table 2.

Relevant sources of information for each block of items.

Data items Relevant sources of information
Postnatal care for mothers and newborn infants
  • Recommendations and guidelines on postnatal care [6,20]

  • Studies about maternal health during the postpartum period [17,2530]

Postnatal counselling
  • Counselling guides for maternal and newborn health care [3134]

Reminders and push notifications
  • Studies tackling the use of reminders in mobile apps for maternal health medication adherence [36,37]

Notes and records
  • A study analyzing functionalities of personal health records for prenatal care [16]

Social support
  • Studies endorsing the importance of social support in improving maternal well-being during the postpartum period [38,39]

App technical features
  • Studies about security and privacy concerns in mobile health applications [4042]

  • Internationalization requirements catalog for health applications [43]

  • Studies evaluating mobile health applications’ compliance with usability guidelines and standards [4446]

  • Reusable usability requirements repository for mobile health applications [47]