Development and Evaluation of mHealth Solutions to Monitor and Involve Cardiometabolic Patients in Self-care

Overview

To develop, using barcode systems and virtual pillbox (TuMedicina and Alice), an App aimed at patients and carers of patients with cardiometabolic diseases as the main diagnosis, over 45 years of age, who have one or more pathologies and use one or more drugs on a daily basis and to analyze their effectiveness in terms of achieving therapeutic objectives, self-efficacy and self-efficacy in self-care or provision of care (as the case may be), healthy behavior, therapeutic compliance and safe use of medication.

In order to achieve the objective of this study, an experimental study will carry out on patients with cardiometabolic and respiratory diseases and their caregivers. A participation of 100 patients and 85 caregivers is planned. The aim is for them to use the mobile application developed over three months in order to evaluate their health improvement comparing several clinical and analytic parameters before and after the use of the App, and also evaluating the satisfaction of the participants.

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