Patients' Experience in the Use of Digital Interventions for Cardiovascular Disease Management: Scoping Review Protocol

This study consists of a scoping review to answer the question: what are patients' experiences with using digital technologies to promote cardiovascular disease care? The review will follow the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) and aims to map the scientific literature regarding patients' experiences with digital technologies for self-care. Thus, qualitative studies published in journals, theses, dissertations, monographs, among others, that present the experiences/perceptions of patients who used some telehealth intervention, as well as the theoretical framework used for analysis, will be included. Exclusion criteria will include editorials, letters, announcements, conference abstracts, and studies that do not address the patient experience. Searches will be conducted in the following databases: PubMed/Medline, Web of Science, Scopus, BVS/LILACS, Embase, Cochrane Library, and national and international dissertation and thesis repositories, as well as programs and documents on the topic. After the search, reading will be carried out in two stages. The first stage, involving title and abstract screening, will be performed independently by two researchers to select studies meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria. In case of disagreement, a third senior researcher will review the conflicts. Studies selected in the initial stage will be read in full and subjected to data extraction to meet the study objectives.