E-health for monitoring children's growth and development: scoping review protocol

Objective: to find evidence that e-Health contributes to monitoring children's growth and development, especially during maternal death.

Method: The procedures guided by the Joanna Briggs Institute for scoping review will be applied. The ten databases listed below will be queried: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Excerpta Medica Database, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, Literatura Latino-americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, Banco de Dados da Enfermagem, Scientific Electronic Library, and IEEE Xplore. Studies available in full, published in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, between 2000 and 2022 will be selected. There will be no restrictions on the types of designs for quantitative studies. Two reviewers will independently screen all citations using an electronic platform. The degree of agreement between researchers will be assessed with Cohen's Kappa Coefficient. The results will be presented through narrative descriptions, charts, and tables. Data analysis will involve descriptive statistics, frequency, and percentage. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist will be used to review and write this review.