![]() This study highlighted the most important features of the free mobile health applications "apps" for diabetes type 1 available in Google Play and App stores that can contribute to enhance the self-management of the diabetes condition by patients in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, there was no application that included the social networking feature. The categories were taking care of a character, quizzes, and the storytelling theme. The applications were categorized into three main categories based on the theme of the application. ![]() Seven of these applications were in English language and only one application was in Arabic language. ![]() All applications that were collected in the inclusion process were carefully analyzed, and the game name, game description, game features, game mechanics, game themes, and operating systems were recorded.Ī total of eight gamified applications related to type 1 diabetes were identified. In order to cover all the mentioned applications, the following keywords, "game for type 1 diabetes" and "gamification for type 1 diabetes" were used in English and Arabic languages. The objective of this study was to review most of the existing free m-Health applications (Apps) that use the gamification approach to manage diabetes type 1 in both App and Google Play stores.įree mobile health applications "apps" that were related to diabetes mellitus have been identified in both App and Google Play stores.
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