NCT03388918

Future Patient - Telerehabilitation of Heart Failure Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aalborg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The idea behind the Future Patient research project is to develop a telerehabilitation program and tools for patients with heart failure. The hypothesis for this study is that participation in a telerehabilitation program for patients with heart failure will increase the patients' quality of life and multi-parametric (subjective and objective) individualized monitoring in a telerehabilitation program for patients with heart failure will increase detection of worsening of symptoms and avoid future hospitalization of the HF-patients.

Detailed description

The overall aim is to test, implement and evaluate a telerehabilitation program for patients with heart failure from clinical, psychosocial, health literacy and e-health literacy, inter-organizational, health economic and technical perspectives. Furthermore, this study has sub aims: * To increase the quality of life for patients with Heart Failure (HF) * To optimize the medical treatment of patients with HF * To perform multi-parametric (subjective and objective) individualized monitoring in order to detect worsening of symptoms and avoid hospitalizations * To increase physical activities for patients with heart failure in everyday life in a telerehabilitation program * To facilitate patient-initiated self-care management actions upon the following early detection of changes in source data (steps taken, weight, blood pressure, pulse, sleep, illness perception, motivation, anxiety and depression) * To evaluate patients health literacy and e-health literacy participating in a telerehabilitation program and rehabilitation program * To test and evaluate the Heart Portal - a digital toolbox for improved self-management for patients with heart failure and their relatives * To explore the experiences and perspectives of the patients and their relatives when being part of a telerehabilitation program * To test and evaluate a cross sector communication platform from a patient and healthcare professional perspective * To perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of total costs of healthcare and rehabilitation services

Conditions

• Heart Failure NYHA Class I
• Heart Failure NYHA Class II
• Heart Failure NYHA Class III
• Heart Failure NYHA Class IV
• Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Telerehabilitation	Blood pressure (A\&D Medical UA 767PBT), weight (A\&D Medical UC-321PBT), step counters(Fitbit Zip \& Charge), sleep sensor (Beddit 3), tablet (iPAD Air 2) \& transmitter (Qualcomm Life, QWH-HUB-V1.0E)

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-12-21
• Primary completion: 2019-08-01
• Completion: 2019-08-01
• First posted: 2018-01-03
• Last updated: 2021-05-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark