Table 1 Characteristics of the included documents

Year of publication

  2009—2011

7

9

  2012—2013

7

9

  2014—2015

19

24

  2016—2017

21

26

  2018—2019

26

33

Location of study

  Europe (including UK)

31

39

  North America

25

31

  Oceania

13

16

  Asia

9

11

  South America

2

3

Pathologies concerned

  Diabetes

45

56

  Cardiovascular diseases

38

48

  Chronic respiratory diseases

25

31

  Cancers

20

25

  Obesity

19

24

Design of the review

  QSR

52

65

  QSR and MA

14

18

  Umbrella (meta-review)

4

5

  Scoping review

4

5

  MA

3

4

  QSR and meta-synthesis (meta-ethnography)

1

1

  Realist review

1

1

  Descriptive

1

1

Field of technology (as stated by the authors)

  m-health

33

41

  e-health

16

20

  Telehealth

16

20

  Web (internet)-based intervention

6

8

  m-health and e-health

3

4

  Telemedicine

2

3

  Telerehabilitation

2

3

  Digital health intervention

2

3