Impact of digital health interventions on quality of life and mental health in older adults with chronic diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Front Aging · 2025 · PMC12813171 · PMID 41561771

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The cardiovascular disease group (5 studies) showed improvement at a borderline significant level (SMD = 0.40, 95% CI [0.02, 0.83], P = 0.06), with high heterogeneity (I 2 = 71.29%, P = 0.01). 4.5.2.

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Additionally, home-based rehabilitation program interventions showed a trend of lower heterogeneity in improving general quality of life, which might imply that structured processes help control implementation quality.

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The results of Egger’s test showed that general quality of life (t = 0.620, P = 0.548), disease-specific quality of life (t = 0.125, P = 0.904), and mental health (t = −1.039, P = 0.358) did not reach statistical significance, suggesting no obvious publication bias.

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