NCT01759368

Heart at Home- a Self-care Study

Heart at Home- Remote Patient Monitoring in the Care of Heart Failure Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In the study benefits of using mobile phone assisted remote patient monitoring including self-measurements of blood pressure, heart rate and weight as well as monitoring of personal health status are investigated in the care of heart failure patients.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Telemonitoring assisted self-care	Telemonitoring group was given a home-care package including a weight scale, a blood pressure meter, a mobile phone and self-care instructions. The measurements taken at home to be uploaded were: diastolic and systolic blood pressure, pulse, body weight and an assessment of symptoms. The symptom assessment concerned the patient's feelings of dizziness, dyspnea, palpitation, weakness and, oedema. Patients were also asked to evaluate their overall condition- whether their condition had deteriorated, improved or remained unchanged. The patients were advised to carry out and report the measurements together with the self-assessment once a week. The responsible nurse followed patients' status and the data once a week or more frequently if needed. Based on the reported measurements, the nurse could invite the patient for a control visit. In case a patient did not make self-measurements as planned , the nurse contacted the patient and reminded him/ her to continue with monitoring

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2013-01-03
• Last updated: 2014-09-17
• Results posted: 2014-09-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland