Why the study?
Self-care behavior is important to avoid hospitalization in heart failure, but the effects of a home-based mobile device on self-care and hospitalizations needed evaluation in a representative heart failure population.
Does a home-based mobile device intervention improve self-care behavior and reduce hospitalizations in patients with heart failure?
Population
124 recruited (118 analyzed) heart failure patients
Comparison
Home-based tool enhancing self-care vs standard care
Design
Multicenter randomized controlled trial
Follow-up
240 days
Authors
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Supports integrating mobile self-care tools into HF management; extends RCT evidence for digital interventions reducing hospital days.
Does a home-based mobile device intervention improve self-care behavior and reduce hospitalizations in patients with heart failure?
A home-based mobile device intervention significantly improved self-care behavior and reduced heart failure-related hospital days in an elderly heart failure population.
Sahlin et al. (2021) studied this question.
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