Health Behavior, Heart Failure
Conditions
Keywords
Heart Failure, Interactive digital health application
Brief summary
Patient Source: Patients discharged from the cardiology ward with heart failure. Intervention Group: Prior to discharge, patients will be provided with and instructed on how to use the Intelligent Interactive Personal Management System for Heart Failure as well as a Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitor and scale for remote data transmission. Control Group: Patients will receive standard medical care. Assessment Method: The Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire (EQ-5D), Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ-12), and Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Well-Being; The 12-item Spiritual Well-Being Scale (FACIT-Sp-12) will be completed before discharge, and at 1 month, 6 months, and 12 months post-discharge. The average time to complete the questionnaires is 10-15 minutes. Additionally, cardiovascular events and readmission rates will be tracked and analyzed over a 1-year period.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALInteractive digital health application
The study program will provide an integrated interactive digital health application (LINE app on smartphones, incorporating information about biodata recording, health education, questionnaires, and online Q&A)
Sponsors
Hsiao Fu-Chih
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Diagnosed with heart failure
Exclusion criteria
Inability to independently stand or get out of bed. Unstable condition
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Heart failure re-hospitalization rate | 1 Year | The rate of heart failure re-hospitalization |
| Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire | 1 Year | The KCCQ-12 is a validated health status measure for patients with HF. It contains four subdomains: Physical Limitation, Symptom Frequency, Quality of Life, and Social Limitations. Each subdomain provides an individual score from 0 to 100, with 0 denoting the worst and 100 the best possible health status. The mean of the four subdomain scores are presented as a summary score, with differences of 5 points or greater considered to be clinically important. |
| EQ-5D | 1 Year | The EQ-5D-5L is a widely used health status measure with two parts. The first part evaluates health across five dimensions: MOBILITY, SELF-CARE, USUAL ACTIVITIES, PAIN/DISCOMFORT, and ANXIETY/DEPRESSION, each with five response levels. This generates a health state profile, which can be assigned a summary index score based on societal preference weights, or utilities, for calculating QALYs in health economics. Scores range from less than 0 (death or worse) to 1 (full health), with higher scores indicating better health utility. The second part of the questionnaire is a visual analogue scale (VAS) where patients rate their perceived health from 0 (worst imaginable health) to 100 (best imaginable health). |
| FACIT-Sp-12 | 1 Year | The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Well-Being (FACIT-Sp-12) is a 12-item scale designed to measure spiritual well-being in individuals with chronic illnesses. Possible scores range from 0 to 48, with higher scores reflecting greater spiritual wellbeing. |
Contacts
Primary ContactFu-Chih Hsiao Doctor of Medicine
Outcome results
None listed