Evaluation of health applications to support the asthma treatment process, available in Poland

WILCZEK, Arkadiusz, WOŹNICZKA, Patrycja & ROGALSKA, Anna. Evaluation of health applications to support the asthma treatment process, available in Poland. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2023;21(1):11-17. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2023.21.01.001 https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/43215 https://zenodo.org/record/7829336 The journal has had 40 points in Ministry of Education and Science of Poland parametric evaluation. Annex to the announcement of the Minister of Education and Science of December 21, 2021. No. 32343. Has a Journal's Unique Identifier: 201159. Scientific disciplines assigned: Physical Culture Sciences (Field of Medical sciences and health sciences); Health Sciences (Field of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences). Punkty Ministerialne z 2019 - aktualny rok 40 punktów. Załącznik do komunikatu Ministra Edukacji i Nauki z dnia 21 grudnia 2021 r. Lp. 32343. Posiada Unikatowy Identyfikator Czasopisma: 201159. Przypisane dyscypliny naukowe: Nauki o kulturze fizycznej (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu); Nauki o zdrowiu (Dziedzina nauk medycznych i nauk o zdrowiu). © The Authors 2023; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 20.03.2023. Revised: 21.03.2023. Accepted: 14.04.2023. Published: 14.04.2023. Evaluation of health applications to support the asthma treatment process, available in Poland Arkadiusz Wilczek1 ORCID 0000-0002-3229-1741, Patrycja Woźniczka1 ORCID: 0000-0003-0805-9229, Anna Rogalska2* ORCID: 0000-0003-1194-2303 1 Scientific Circle at the Department of Economics and Management in Health Care, Faculty of Public Health in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice 2 Department of Economics and Management in Health Care, Faculty of Public Health in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice * Corresponding author: Anna Rogalska, ul. Piekarska 18, 41-902 Bytom, e-mail: arogalska@sum.edu.pl Summary Introduction: Asthma, is one of the most frequently diagnosed chronic diseases in the world. Among the key elements of asthma treatment are primarily to obtain control over the disease and to activate the patient and his participation in the treatment process. E-health and telemedicine come in handy here in the form of applications for smartphone devices, thus supporting self-coping with chronic disease. The purpose of the study was the quantitative and qualitative assessment of applications supporting such a process available in Polish. Material and methods: The study was based on a review and analysis of available applications that meet the criteria for switching on various types of mobile devices, supported by various operating systems. Searching for qualified applications for analysis was carried out from October 14 to November 8, 2022, based on keywords: asthma, application, and dairy. Results: Ultimately, 4 applications dedicated to asthma were analyzed. The highest number of points was obtained by the Mytherapy application - 5.5 points/12 points - but it did not reach the adopted threshold of good quality application - a minimum of 75% of possible points. Conclusions: A small number of available applications in Polish have been identified, and a clear gap was noticed in access to the complete application - each of the applications emphasized the specific treatment area, apart from the element marked clearly during the interview - the database of drug interaction used in asthma with other pharmaceuticals. These conclusions prompt the direction of both attempts to create an application holistically approaching the topic and further research in this area. Keywords: asthma, e-health, applicatio