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The Digital Incentive Spirometer (DIS): Improving Adherence to Incentive Spirometry

NCT03686631 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2019-09-24

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the protocol is to assess how incentive spirometer data gathered via a smartphone platform can be utilized to improve participant adherence to prescribed incentive spirometer exercises in the post-operative period. Half of the participants will receive a standard of care incentive spirometer with a passive tracking device while the other half of the participants will receive a smartphone connected device and smartphone with an application that will encourage their use.

Conditions

  • Post-Op Infection
  • Adherence, Patient
  • Pulmonary Atelectasis
  • Incentive Spirometry
  • Post-Op Complication

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Smartphone Arm

The smartphone arm will have an associated smartphone application, available in kiosk mode, that will remind and encourage patient to utilize the spirometer and provide a "gamified" application for that patient to do so.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Charlie Safran, MD MS · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-07-09
Primary Completion
2019-08-14
Completion
2019-08-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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