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

NCT ID: NCT03194841

Last Updated: 2017-06-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 10 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-08-22
• Study Completion Date: 2017-01-06

Brief 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

Heart Failure

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Heart Failure Application

A mobile application that allowed for input of physiologic data, qualitative questions about symptoms and education

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Heart failure application

Intervention Type: OTHER

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

Interventions

Heart failure application

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

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• living in a non-nursing home setting
• primary providers of own self-care
• established diagnosis of heart failure
• cognitively intact
• able to speak/write English

Exclusion Criteria

• not willing to use a smartphone
• not exhibiting acute decompensated heart failure symptoms

• Minimum Eligible Age: 45 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Marva Foster

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kristen Sethares, PhD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Other Identifiers

15.064

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id