Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT06068699
Postcards to Improve Remote Monitoring Adherence Among Veterans
Informational Postcards to Improve Remote Monitoring Among Veterans With Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 6,351 (actual)
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs · Federal
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
We tested the effect of informational postcards on improving remote monitoring adherence among Veterans with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in a stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial.
Detailed description
Objective: To test the effect of informational postcards on remote monitoring adherence among Veterans with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). Design/Patients: Stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial among Veterans with pacemakers and ICDs. Intervention: In wave 1, Veterans who had sent at least 1 transmission within the past 2 years but had become non-adherent were randomly assigned to receive a postcard or no postcard. Those receiving postcards were randomized to 1 of 2 messages: 1) a "warning" postcard describing risks of non-adherence or 2) an "encouraging" postcard describing benefits of adherence. In wave 2, Veterans who had either not received a postcard in wave 1 or had since become non-adherent were mailed a postcard (again, randomized to 1 of 2 messages). Patients who did not send a remote monitoring transmission within 1 month were mailed a second, identical postcard. Main Measures: Proportion of patients who sent a transmission within 70 days.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Postcard | Participants received a postcard asking them to address non-adherence to remote monitoring. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2020-05-01
- Primary completion
- 2021-12-31
- Completion
- 2022-02-28
- First posted
- 2023-10-05
- Last updated
- 2023-10-05
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06068699. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.