NCT05355506

The Development and Effectiveness of Heart Failure Self-Health Management Application

National Taipei University of Nursing and Science

• Status: Suspended
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Aims: To develop a smartphone application and investigate its effectiveness on patients with heart failure after using the "heart failure self-health management application.".

Detailed description

Abstract Aims: To develop a smartphone application and investigate its effectiveness on patients with heart failure after using the "heart failure self-health management application.". Design: The single-group pre- and post-test experimental design was adopted. Methods: This study used convenience sampling and the one-group pretest and posttest design as the research methods and developed the "heart failure self-health management application" using the Google cloud database and Web App. The research period was from July 1 to December 31, 2019, a total of 36 patients diagnosed with heart failure during hospitalization completed the pretest and posttest. This App (1) provides text and video heart failure self-care knowledge content; (2) enables users to record and browse blood pressure, heart rate, and weight; and (3) provides the data from the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale and Technology Acceptance Model. Keywords: heart failure; self-health management; application

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Application	Knowledge \& record

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-03
• Completion: 2022-12-03
• First posted: 2022-05-02
• Last updated: 2022-05-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan