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

Heart Failure Clinical Trial

— HFSC  

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03194841
• Other study ID #: 15.064
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 16, 2017
• Last updated: June 19, 2017
• Start date: August 22, 2016
• Est. completion date: January 6, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: June 2017
• Source: University of Massachusetts, Worcester
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: January 6, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: January 6, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 45 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Heart Failure

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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	Heart Failure Somatic Awareness Scale	It determines the extent of distress associated with heart failure symptoms.	two weeks