NCT03194841

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-08-22
• Primary completion: 2017-01-06
• Completion: 2017-01-06
• First posted: 2017-06-21
• Last updated: 2017-06-21