Chronic Disease Mobile Educational Experience

NCT ID: NCT04090593

Last Updated: 2019-09-16

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 200 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2020-10-31

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a mobile health education module, in increasing hospitalized patients' understanding of their chronic illness, and in reducing 30-day hospital readmission rates. Half of the participants will receive the educational module intervention in addition to standard education, the other half will receive hospital standard practice education only.

Detailed Description

Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability, costing the US healthcare system 1 trillion dollars annually. Successful management of these conditions critically requires patient understanding and engagement. Patients are advised to adhere to medications, redesign lifestyles, and navigate the health care system. Most of these care plan items require careful instruction and confirmation of shared understanding.

Mobile health technology has the potential to assist greatly with patient education, especially for hospitalized patients. This prospective study evaluates a specific mobile technology intervention, an educational and emotionally-engaging video patients watch while admitted for a complication related to one of these chronic diseases: Heart Failure, Diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Cirrhosis, Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension.

Conditions

Chronic Disease; Heart Failure

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

Educational Module Intervention

Intervention arm patients receive educational mobile module related to chronic condition that contributed to reason for admission.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Patient Education 101: Mobile Health Education Tool

Intervention Type: OTHER

Intervention is interactive, mobile (tablet-or-smart-phone delivered), educational module that patients engage with during hospital admission.

Hospital Practice Control

Control arm patients receive current, standard practice as related to patient education in the hospital (this does not include an educational mobile module).

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Patient Education 101: Mobile Health Education Tool

Intervention is interactive, mobile (tablet-or-smart-phone delivered), educational module that patients engage with during hospital admission.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• admission to medical service primary team for decompensation or complication of chronic disease.(e.g. heart failure)

Exclusion Criteria

• cognitive disability or visual/auditory limitation that prevents self-interaction with educational module

• Minimum Eligible Age: 21 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Josh Banerjee, MD, MPH, MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

LAC+USC Medical Center

Central Contacts

Josh Banerjee, MD, MPH, MS

Role: CONTACT

jbanerjee@dhs.lacounty.gov

323-409-6348

Other Identifiers

HS-19-00145

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id