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Table 5 Identified motivational factors to self-care in pre and postoperative E-health applications

From: Patients’ and providers’ perspectives on e-health applications designed for self-care in association with surgery – a scoping review

Identified motivational factors to self-care

Studies

Private use of borrowed tablets

Pecorelli et al. 2018 [37]

Chat features

Davidovitch et al. 2018 [30], Felbaum et al. 2018 [31], Glauser et al. 2019 [32], Gustavell et al. 2019 [33], Hou et al. 2019 [34], Pickens et al. 2019 [38]

Encouragement of involvement with family and friends

Pickens et al. 2019 [38]

Educational/instructive texts, photos and/or videos

All included studies

Monitoring of self-assessed recovery and

shown in graphs

Bouwsma et al. 2017, Glauser et al. 2019 [32], Gustavell et al. 2019 [33], Pecorelli et al. 2018 [37], Timmers et al. 2019 [40]

Personalized care plans

Hou et al. 2019 [34], van Der Meij et al. 2018 [35]

Sharing of,

• Photos

• videos

• Davidovitch et al. 2018 [30], Felbaum et al. 2018 [31], Glauser et al. 2017, Timmers et al. 2019 [40], Tofte et al. 2020 [41]

• Tofte et al. 2020 [41]

Reminders and messages

Felbaum et al. 2018 [31], Glauser et al. 2019 [32], Gustavell et al. 2019 [33], Hou et al. 2019 [34], Mundi et al. 2015 [36], Pecorelli et al. 2018 [37], Pickens et al. 2019 [38], Timmers et al. 2019 [40]

Alerts

Hou et al. 2019 [34], Gustavell et al. 2019 [33]