In the United States, about 40 percent of heart failure (HF) patients are readmitted within 1-year following their first admission for HF and hospitalization accounts for approximately 70 percent of the costs of HF management. As a result, the management of HF patients is evolving from the traditional model of face-to-face follow-up visits toward a proactive real-time technological model of assisting patients with monitoring and self-management while in the community. The investigators plan to test the impact of a mobile application on clinical outcomes in HF.
HF patients with a reduced ejection fraction will be randomized to the mobile application versus placebo for 12 weeks. The mobile application will provide the participants with a reminder to perform self-monitoring, a health status indicator and heart failure education for self-management. All participants will complete the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire and Self-Care Heart Failure Index. Hospital admissions and mortality will also be collected.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
83
Participants will use the mobile application daily to assess heart failure symptoms.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ)
MLHFQ is a quality of life questionnaire for heart failure.
Time frame: Change from Baseline MLHFQ at Week 12
Self-Care Heart Failure Index (SCHFI)
SCHFI is a survey of heart failure patient self-management.
Time frame: Change from Baseline SCHFI at Week 12
Hospitalizations
Admission to the hospital while enrolled in the trial.
Time frame: Over 12 weeks
Mortality
Death while enrolled in the trial.
Time frame: Over 12 weeks
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