Mobile health interventions tailored to immigrant populations with diabetes: an integrative review
This review demonstrates the feasibility and acceptability of mHealth interventions for diabetes management among within immigrant populations. The findings suggest that these interventions may serve as a viable strategy to improve health, psychosocial, and behavioral outcomes. Future RCTs with larger sample sizes are needed to provide more robust evidence of the effectiveness of mHealth interventions. Importantly, this review highlights the scarcity of mHealth-related studies focused on immigrant populations with diabetes and calls for more research to examine how to best support this underserved group.
Authors
- Natalie Levy
- Bei Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6891-244X)
- Mary Ann Sevick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5482-7535)
- Kosuke Tamura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-2856)
- Jing Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3588-2969)
- Lu Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6465-6779)
- Heng Song (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-5053)
- Ximin Yang
- ORA Z. FRIEDMAN
Institutions
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- New York University Shanghai (CN)
- Institute for Family Health (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (US)
- New York University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-11-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-25241-3
- Primary Topic
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00