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Heart Failure Self-care With the Aid of a Smartphone Application

NCT03194841 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2017-06-21

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Summary

The purpose of this study was the development, and testing of a HF application that was used to provide self-care support to HF patients through a smartphone device. The study appraised current available literature on HF to determine best practices for promoting self-care of HF through direct communication with individuals with HF living at home. For the purpose of this study, smart phone communication was utilized. Smart phone applications allow patients to transmit physiological data, such as weight, blood pressure, heart rate, and symptom data to healthcare providers. Using a secure website, a healthcare worker can access the information and contact the patient via the mobile phone when their data is out of normal range. This study was novel in its approach from what is traditionally offered in that it supported patient self-care decisions by promoting symptom monitoring and offered both tactical and situational skills strategies through at the point education.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Heart failure application

A mobile phone application that allowed for input of physiologic data, qualitative question input and education retrieval along with SMS use.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Kristen Sethares, PhD · University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-22
Primary Completion
2017-01-06
Completion
2017-01-06

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