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It examines existing applications of MHCS, focusing on development strategies, usage contexts, impacts on users, benefits, and research gaps, emphasizing the ability of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in making health guidance and decision-support recommendations transparent, trustworthy, and interpretable, if properly integrated. This scoping review identifies opportunities to maximize the use of conversational agents, explainable AI, and mobile technologies to make mobile health coaching systems more accessible and trustworthy, as well as further research gaps worth exploring. Objective: This scoping review maps the evidence on CAs and XAI-enabled technologies in MHCS, identifies trust-related design criteria, categorizes reported outcomes, and highlights opportunities for explainable conversational agents (XCA) in a mobile health context, especially in tackling general medical conditions pertinent in underserved settings. Eligibility criteria: Reported eligible resources evaluated, designed, or conceptually analyzed existing CAs, XAI techniques, and MHCS, AI-supported medical dialogue systems, e-coaching systems, and mobile health applications. We considered sources only relevant to healthcare, health coaching, trust, explainability, or patient engagement that were published between 2006 and 2025. Sources of Evidence: Searches were conducted in IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, Springer, ScienceDirect\/Elsevier, ProQuest, and ACM Digital Library, supplemented by targeted web searches and backward citation checks. Charting methods: Data were charted by system type, communication mode, health context, operational mode, technology used, XAI\/trust features, degree of automation, study designs and outcome classification. We applied a revised outcome classification: generated desired outcome (GDO) and partially generated desired outcome (P-GDO), and did not generate desired outcome (DN-GDO). Results: A total of 201 resources were collected. Charted studies clustered around CAs in health, MHCS for chronic diseases and stress management, XAI methods such as LIME, SHAP, Prospector, and counterfactual explanations, and trust-related elements such as voice quality, communication style, appearance, social intelligence, privacy, and performance quality. Most health CAs and MHCS addressed chronic diseases, mental health, or behavior change; fewer addressed general medical diagnosis or autonomous mobile-based primary care support. Conclusions: Existing evidence suggests that CAs and MHCSs can support engagement, coaching, education, and selected decision-support tasks, but evidence for safe, autonomous, explainable general practice functionality remains limited. Future work should prioritize clinically supervised XCA designs, core safety assessment, interfaces with transparent explanation, data protection, culturally and linguistically responsive implementation, and future-oriented review in underserved mobile health settings.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/make8060144","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,25]],"date-time":"2026-05-25T14:10:22Z","timestamp":1779718222000},"page":"144","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Explainable Conversational Agents for Mobile Health Coaching Systems: Trust Factors, Progress and Opportunities"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-5786-6022","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luminous Ogochukwu","family":"Akazua","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Data Science Institute, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6034-644X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianlong","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Data Science Institute, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2185-9311","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fang","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Data Science Institute, School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7668-8524","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Niusha","family":"Shafiabady","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Women in AI for Social Good Lab, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney Campus, Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia"},{"name":"Discipline of IT, Faculty of Science and Technology, Charles Darwin University, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4472-5428","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"George","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6786-5194","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andreas","family":"Holzinger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Human-Centered AI Lab, FTEC, Department of Ecosystem Management, Climate and Biodiversity, BOKU University, Peter-Jordan-Stra\u00dfe 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9691-4872","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heimo","family":"M\u00fcller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Machine Learning and Information Science Group, Medical University Graz, Neue Stiftingtalstra\u00dfe 6, 8010 Graz, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"491","DOI":"10.1111\/bjet.13174","article-title":"Effectiveness of embodied conversational agents for managing academic stress at an Indian University (ARU) during COVID-19","volume":"53","author":"Nelekar","year":"2022","journal-title":"Br. 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