Table 2
Excluded studies after full-text review and reasons why they were excluded.
| Study | Reason for exclusion |
| Pumper, M. A., Mendoza, J. A., Arseniev-Koehler, A., Holm, M., Waite, A., & Moreno, M. A. (2015). Using a Facebook group as an adjunct to a pilot mHealth physical activity intervention: a mixed methods approach. Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2015, 97-101. PMID: 26799887 | Outcome: quality assessment. Final outcomes other than efficacy, safety or effectiveness. |
| Wong, E. M., Leung, D. Y., Sit, J. W., & Leung, K. P. (2018). Home-based interactive e-health educational intervention for middle-aged adults to improve total exercise, adherence rate, exercise efficacy, and outcome: a randomised controlled trial. Hong Kong medical journal= Xianggang yi xue za zhi, 24(1), 34-38. PMID: 29938656 | Outcome: quality assessment. Final outcomes other than efficacy, safety or effectiveness. |
| Van Dyck, D., Plaete, J., Cardon, G., Crombez, G., & De Bourdeaudhuij, I. (2016). Effectiveness of the self-regulation eHealth intervention ‘MyPlan1. 0.’ on physical activity levels of recently retired Belgian adults: a randomized controlled trial. Health education research, 31(5), 653-664. PMID: 27422898 | Outcome: quality assessment. Final outcomes other than efficacy, safety or effectiveness |
| Lee, H., Uhm, K. E., Cheong, I. Y., Yoo, J. S., Chung, S. H., Park, Y. H., … & Hwang, J. H. (2018). Patient satisfaction with mobile health (mHealth) application for exercise intervention in breast cancer survivors. Journal of medical systems, 42(12), 1-9. PMID: 30402781 | Methodology: not controlled trial. |
| Feldman, D. I., Theodore Robison, W., Pacor, J. M., Caddell, L. C., Feldman, E. B., Deitz, R. L., … & Blaha, M. J. (2018). Harnessing mHealth technologies to increase physical activity and prevent cardiovascular disease. Clinical cardiology, 41(7), 985-991. PMID: 29671879 | Methodology: not controlled trial. |
| Aguilera, A., Figueroa, C. A., Hernandez-Ramos, R., Sarkar, U., Cemballi, A., Gomez-Pathak, L., Miramontes, J., Yom-Tov, E., Chakraborty, B., Yan, X., Xu, J., Modiri, A., Aggarwal, J., Jay Williams, J., & Lyles, C. R. (2020). MHealth app using machine learning to increase physical activity in diabetes and depression: Clinical trial protocol for the DIAMANTE Study. BMJ Open, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-034723 | Methodology: study not concluded. |
| Krebs, P., Shtaynberger, J., McCabe, M., Iocolano, M., Williams, K., Shuk, E., & Ostroff, J. S. (2017). An eHealth intervention to increase physical activity and healthy eating in older adult cancer survivors: summative evaluation results. JMIR cancer, 3(1), e6435. PMID: 28410171 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention based on dietary patterns and pathology. |
| Montoya, J. L., Wing, D., Knight, A., Moore, D. J., & Henry, B. L. (2015). Development of an mHealth intervention (iSTEP) to promote physical activity among people living with HIV. Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC), 14(6), 471-475. PMID: 26307212 | Out of scope: Not a mixed assistance (face-to-face and virtual) physical activity intervention. |
| Klausen, S. H., Mikkelsen, U. R., Hirth, A., Wetterslev, J., Kjærgaard, H., Søndergaard, L., & Andersen, L. L. (2012). Design and rationale for the PREVAIL study: Effect of e-Health individually tailored encouragements to physical exercise on aerobic fitness among adolescents with congenital heart disease—a randomized clinical trial. American heart journal, 163(4), 549-556. PMID: 2252051 | Out of scope: Not a mixed assistance (face-to-face and virtual) physical activity intervention. |
| Pas, H. I. M. F. L., Pluim, B. M., Kilic, O., Verhagen, E., Gouttebarge, V., Holman, R., … & Tol, J. L. (2020). Effectiveness of an e-health tennis-specific injury prevention programme: randomised controlled trial in adult recreational tennis players. British journal of sports medicine, 54(17), 1036-1041. PMID: 32001517 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention sport injury prevention oriented. |
| Mailuhu, A. K., Verhagen, E. A., van Ochten, J. M., Bindels, P. J., Bierma-Zeinstra, S. M., & van Middelkoop, M. (2015). The trAPP-study: cost-effectiveness of an unsupervised e-health supported neuromuscular training program for the treatment of acute ankle sprains in general practice: design of a randomized controlled trial. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 16(1), 1-8. PMID: 25887998 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention sport injury prevention oriented. |
| O’Shea, O., Woods, C., McDermott, L., Buys, R., Cornelis, N., Claes, J., … & Moran, K. (2020). A qualitative exploration of cardiovascular disease patients’ views and experiences with an eHealth cardiac rehabilitation intervention: The PATHway Project. PloS one, 15(7), e0235274. PMID: 32628688 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Carney, R., & Firth, J. (2018). mHealth and Physical Activity Interventions Among People With Mental Illness. In Exercise-Based Interventions for Mental Illness (pp. 217-242). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-812605-9.00012-5 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention based on the effect on a pathology. |
| Griffin, J. B., Struempler, B., Funderburk, K., Parmer, S. M., Tran, C., & Wadsworth, D. D. (2020). My Quest, a Community-Based mHealth Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Promote Weight Loss in Predominantly Rural-Dwelling, Low-Income, Alabama Women. Family & community health, 43(2), 131-140. PMID: 32079969 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention based on dietary patterns |
| Wienert, J., Kuhlmann, T., Storm, V., Reinwand, D., & Lippke, S. (2019). Latent user groups of an eHealth physical activity behaviour change intervention for people interested in reducing their cardiovascular risk. Research in Sports Medicine, 27(1), 34-49. PMID: 30047785 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Meyers, L., Ginocchio, C. C., Faucett, A. N., Nolte, F. S., Gesteland, P. H., Leber, A., … & Poritz, M. A. (2018). Automated real-time collection of pathogen-specific diagnostic data: syndromic infectious disease epidemiology. JMIR public health and surveillance, 4(3), e9876. PMID: 29295808 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Salvi, D., Ottaviano, M., Muuraiskangas, S., Martínez-Romero, A., Vera-Muñoz, C., Triantafyllidis, A., … & Deighan, C. (2018). An m-Health system for education and motivation in cardiac rehabilitation: the experience of HeartCycle guided exercise. Journal of telemedicine and telecare, 24(4), 303-316. PMID: 28350282 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Henry, B. L., & Moore, D. J. (2016). Preliminary findings describing participant experience with iSTEP, an mHealth intervention to increase physical activity and improve neurocognitive function in people living with HIV. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 27(4), 495-511. PMID: 26847379 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention based on the effect on a pathology. |
| Bogaerts, A., Ameye, L., Bijlholt, M., Amuli, K., Heynickx, D., & Devlieger, R. (2017). INTER-ACT: prevention of pregnancy complications through an e-health driven interpregnancy lifestyle intervention–study protocol of a multicentre randomised controlled trial. BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 17(1), 1-9. PMID: 28549455 | Out of scope: Not a mixed assistance (face-to-face and virtual) physical activity intervention. |
| Van Den Berg, M., Crotty, M., Liu, E., Killington, M., Kwakkel, G., & Van Wegen, E. (2016). Early supported discharge by caregiver-mediated exercises and e-health support after stroke: a proof-of-concept trial. Stroke, 47(7), 1885-1892. PMID: 27301941 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention based on the effect on a pathology. |
| Van der Meij, E., Anema, J. R., Leclercq, W. K., Bongers, M. Y., Consten, E. C., Koops, S. E. S., … & Huirne, J. A. (2018). Personalised perioperative care by e-health after intermediate-grade abdominal surgery: a multicentre, single-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial. The Lancet, 392(10141), 51-59. PMID: 29937195 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention rehabilitation oriented. |
| Koziol-McLain, J., McLean, C., Rohan, M., Sisk, R., Dobbs, T., Nada-Raja, S., … & Vandal, A. C. (2016). Participant recruitment and engagement in automated eHealth trial registration: challenges and opportunities for recruiting women who experience violence. Journal of medical internet research, 18(10), e281. PMID: 27780796 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Helle, C., Hillesund, E. R., Wills, A. K., & Øverby, N. C. (2019). Examining the effects of an eHealth intervention from infant age 6 to 12 months on child eating behaviors and maternal feeding practices one year after cessation: The Norwegian randomized controlled trial Early Food for Future Health. PloS one, 14(8), e0220437. PMID: 31442241 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Lally, R. M., Kupzyk, K. A., Bellavia, G., Hydeman, J., Gallo, S., Helgeson, V. S., … & Brown, J. K. (2020). CaringGuidance™ after breast cancer diagnosis eHealth psychoeducational intervention to reduce early post-diagnosis distress. Supportive Care in Cancer, 28(5), 2163-2174. PMID: 31414245 | Out of scope: Not a mixed assistance (face-to-face and virtual) physical activity intervention. |
| Wagenaar, K. P., Broekhuizen, B. D., Jaarsma, T., Kok, I., Mosterd, A., Willems, F. F., … & Rutten, F. H. (2019). Effectiveness of the European Society of Cardiology/Heart Failure Association website ‘heartfailurematters. org’and an e‐health adjusted care pathway in patients with stable heart failure: results of the ‘e‐Vita HF’randomized controlled trial. European journal of heart failure, 21(2), 238-246. PMID: 30485612 | Out of scope: Not a physical activity intervention. |
| Watson, N. L., Mull, K. E., Heffner, J. L., McClure, J. B., & Bricker, J. B. (2018). Participant recruitment and retention in remote eHealth intervention trials: methods and lessons learned from a large randomized controlled trial of two web-based smoking interventions. Journal of medical Internet research, 20(8), e10351. PMID: 30143479 | Out of scope: Not a mixed assistance (face-to-face and virtual) physical activity intervention. |
| Vloothuis, J. D., Mulder, M., Nijland, R. H., Goedhart, Q. S., Konijnenbelt, M., Mulder, H., … & Kwakkel, G. (2019). Caregiver-mediated exercises with e-health support for early supported discharge after stroke (CARE4STROKE): A randomized controlled trial. PloS one, 14(4), e0214241. PMID: 30958833 | Out of scope: mHealth intervention based on dietary patterns. |
