Applying technology to promote sexual and reproductive health and prevent gender based violence for adolescents in low and middle-income countries: digital health strategies synthesis from an umbrella review

Table 1 Article search terms and strategies in three areas of eHealth

Area of digital health	Review Articles Search Strategies	Review Article Selection
1. SRH	(Sexual Health or Reproductive Health) and (mHealth or eHealth) and (Adolescent), filters: in the last 10 years	142 articles 7 review articles identified for this review [23, 53,54,55,56,57,58]
2. GBV	(IPV or GBV or Dating Violence) and (mHealth or eHealth), filters: in the last 10 years	38 articles 4 review articles identified for this review [59,60,61,62]
3. Adolescent Development, Behavioral Health	(Adolescent Development) and (mHealth or eHealth) and (Adolescent), filters: in the last 10 years	483 articles 6 review articles identified for this review [63,64,65,66,67,68]

Note. The search terms ‘eHealth’ and ‘mHealth’ were based on WHO’s recommendations for technology-based health research between 2010 and 2019. For adolescent development, we focused on eHealth/mHealth review articles that examined broader applications of technology in promoting adolescents’ development, social, emotional, and general physical health literacy/skills/competency, as well eHealth/mHealth review articles focused on design strategies to promote engagement in using technology solutions in general adolescent health. We excluded articles focused on mental disorders, chronic diseases, or medical interventions gave the special needs (anxiety and depression, suicidal intervention, diet/physical activity/weight management, tuberculosis treatment). For GBV literature, we included ‘IPV’ and ‘dating violence’ search terms because these terms are more commonly used in the adolescent literature. In addition, we included review studies targeting any age group because no digital health review paper targets adolescents specifically (most studies include small subgroups of adolescents, and do not examine age differential impacts)

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