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

NCT03194841 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 15.064
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 10
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief 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

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Self-Care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI)

  Measures how well a person monitors their symptoms, adhere to medication/diet and how confident they are in performing self-care.

  two weeks

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Heart Failure Somatic Awareness Scale

  two weeks

Study Arms (1)

Heart Failure Application

EXPERIMENTAL

A mobile application that allowed for input of physiologic data, qualitative questions about symptoms and education

Other: Heart failure application

Interventions

Heart failure application OTHER

A mobile phone application that allowed for input of physiologic data, qualitative question input and education retrieval along with SMS use.

Heart Failure Application

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 45 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• living in a non-nursing home setting
• primary providers of own self-care
• established diagnosis of heart failure
• cognitively intact
• able to speak/write English

You may not qualify if:

• not willing to use a smartphone
• not exhibiting acute decompensated heart failure symptoms

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Massachusetts, Worcester: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Heart Failure

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Officials

• Kristen Sethares, PhD

  University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 16, 2017
• First Posted: June 21, 2017
• Study Start: August 22, 2016
• Primary Completion: January 6, 2017
• Study Completion: January 6, 2017
• Last Updated: June 21, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share