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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Heart Failure
• Interventions: Other: Heart failure application

• Registration Number: NCT03194841
• Lead Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Worcester

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-08-22
• Primary Completion: 2017-01-06
• Study Completion: 2017-01-06
• Status Verified: 2017-06
• Study First Submitted: 2017-06-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-06-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-06-19
• Study First Posted: 2017-06-21
• Last Update Posted: 2017-06-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• 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

Exclusion Criteria

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Heart Failure Application	Heart failure application	A mobile application that allowed for input of physiologic data, qualitative questions about symptoms and education

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-Care of Heart Failure Index (SCHFI)	two weeks	Measures how well a person monitors their symptoms, adhere to medication/diet and how confident they are in performing self-care.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Heart Failure Somatic Awareness Scale	two weeks	It determines the extent of distress associated with heart failure symptoms.