Aims: To develop a smartphone application and investigate its effectiveness on patients with heart failure after using the "heart failure self-health management application.".
Abstract Aims: To develop a smartphone application and investigate its effectiveness on patients with heart failure after using the "heart failure self-health management application.". Design: The single-group pre- and post-test experimental design was adopted. Methods: This study used convenience sampling and the one-group pretest and posttest design as the research methods and developed the "heart failure self-health management application" using the Google cloud database and Web App. The research period was from July 1 to December 31, 2019, a total of 36 patients diagnosed with heart failure during hospitalization completed the pretest and posttest. This App (1) provides text and video heart failure self-care knowledge content; (2) enables users to record and browse blood pressure, heart rate, and weight; and (3) provides the data from the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale and Technology Acceptance Model. Keywords: heart failure; self-health management; application
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
60
Knowledge \& record
Pei-Hung Liao
Taipei County, Taiwan
participant's knowledge about heart failure significantly increased after the intervention
Provides the data from the Dutch Heart Failure Knowledge Scale and Technology Acceptance Model. Analysis on participant's knowledge about heart failure and Technology Acceptance Model Scale after the Intervention. Higher scores mean a better outcome.
Time frame: 6 months
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