NCT05798442

The Impact of Using a Smartphone Health Application in the Improvement of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors

The Impact of Using a Smartphone Health Application in the Improvement of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the Omani Population; Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 410 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sultan Qaboos University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigates the effectiveness of Mobile health application (mHealth apps) in the improvement of cardiovascular disease risk factors including metabolic and behavioral factors. The app will be tested on patients with any of the modifiable risk factors of CVD such as hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and impaired glycemic control/type 2 diabetes mellitus .

Detailed description

The investigators aim in this study to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, obesity and hypertension. This will be achieved by motivating healthy lifestyle among the participants such as increasing physical activity and intake of healthy diet and reducing alcohol and tobacco consumption. The tool which will be used to motivate healthy lifestyle is a smartphone application which will be specifically designed to motivate behavioral change. Thus, the investigators hypothesis is that participants who have full access to the mobile application will show improved healthy lifestyle, reduced blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose and reduced BMI compared to the participants who don't have access to the mobile application.

Conditions

• Hypercholesterolemia
• Obesity
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	smartphone health application (Opulse)	The Opulse app will be designed as a multifunction app that targets the modification of the behavioral and metabolic risk factors and provides comprehensive interventions for healthy diet, physical activity and smoking cessation among smokers.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-30
• Primary completion: 2026-12-30
• Completion: 2027-12-30
• First posted: 2023-04-04
• Last updated: 2023-04-04