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Table 1 Application of various Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)

From: Fulfilling the promise of digital health interventions (DHI) to promote women’s sexual, reproductive and mental health in the aftermath of COVID-19

S. no.

Areas of improvement

Author, year, and references

1

Telemedicine for medical abortion (systematic review)

Endler, 2019 [18]

2

Online testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have shown to double the update of STI tests

Wilson, 2017 [19]

3

e- contraception through which the oral contraceptive can be ordered online

Rezel, 2017 [20]

4

Improvement in levels of knowledge, contraceptive use, and health-seeking behavior (using digital innovations, mobile technologies, and interventions)

Daher,2017 [21]

5

Application of digital innovations for HIV and STIs (systematic review)

Daher, 2017 [21]

6

Expanding the choice in accessing contraception online (improving access to various socioeconomic groups)

Rezel, 2017 [20]

7

mHealth SRH interventions among female sex workers (high-risk groups)

Ampt, 2017 [22]

8

Supporting post-abortion contraception among women using mobile phone-based intervention

Smith, 2017 [23]

9

Mobile phone interventions for adolescent SRH (systematic review)

L’Engle, 2016 [24]

10

Promoting safer sex behaviors through mobile phone texting interventions

French, 2016 [25]

11

Increase in safer sex behaviors among young people using text messages

Free, 2016 [26]

12

Improvement in levels of knowledge, contraceptive use, and health-seeking behavior through digital innovations and mobile technologies

Sondaal, 2016 [27]

Burns, 2016 [28]

Smith, 2015 [29]