Many studies have found that mobile apps can assist patients with chronic diseases like epilepsy. A recent research article published in the journal JMIR mHealth and uHealth reviewed several apps for epilepsy and how they may help people manage their epilepsy. Check out more information below:
According to the research article, epilepsy self-management apps cover one or more of the following domains:
- Treatment Management: Help self manage treatment through things like reminders for treatments and appointments and recommendations and advice from health care providers for treatments.
- Medication Adherence: Help establish a medication list, including the dose and time the medication is taken, a reminder to take the medication and an alert when the prescription needed to be refilled.
- Health Care Communication: Enable reports to be sent to health care provider(s) and help the patient and health care provider(s) to monitor side effects related to epilepsy.
- Seizure Tracking: Enable recording of seizures including the time the seizure took place, how long the seizure lasted, the seizure type, frequency, triggers and auras and video recordings.
- Seizure Response: Feature seizure first aid instructions, including how to help someone having a seizure and when to call 911. Also allows alert messages to be sent to caregivers with GPS location either during the aura stage or following a seizure.
- Safety: Provide instructions how to avoid risks that are detrimental to people living with epilepsy.
- Wellness: Provide wellness-related information such as exercise and diet, including food tracking to help identify associations with seizure activity
- Social Support: Provide stories relating to epilepsy from others living with epilepsy and allow people to share their stories or get advice from others.
- Coping and Stress Management: Provide information on managing stress, coping skills and relaxation exercises to help prevent seizures.
- Proactivity: Provides advice on how to avoid situations or things that might cause seizures.
What Epilepsy Self-Management Apps Are Available?
The research article conducted a review on several epilepsy self-management apps that are available on either Android or iOS or both. If you are interested in downloading one or more of these apps, please see below for more information:
Available on both Android and iOS:
- Seizure Log
- My Seizure Diary
- Epilepsy Ireland Diary App
- Seizure First Aide
- Download on iOS here
- Download on Android here
- Birdhouse – for Epilepsy
- EpApp
- Download on iOS here
- Download on Android here
- Helpilepsy – Epilepsy Assistant & Diary
Available on Android only:
- Epilepsy Journal
- Download on Android here
- Epilepsy Diary
- Download on Android here
- Simple Seizure
- Download on Android here
- Win Over Epilepsy
- Download on Android here
Available on iOS only:
- E-Epilepsy Inclusion
- Download on iOS here
- ElFY Epilepsy
- Download on iOS here
- Epi & Me 2
- Download on iOS here
- M.E.
- Download on iOS here
For more information on epilepsy self-management apps, you can read the research article here.