Long-term adherence to a wearable for continuous behavioural activity measuring in the SafeHeart implantable cardioverter defibrillator population.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Wearable health technologies are increasingly popular. Yet, wearable monitoring only works when devices are worn as intended, and adherence reporting lacks standardization. In this study, we aimed to explore the long-term adherence to a wrist-worn activity tracker in the prospective SafeHeart study and identify patient characteristics associated with adherence.

Methods and results

This study enrolled 303 participants, instructed to wear a wrist-worn accelerometer day and night for 6 months. Long-term adherence was defined as valid days (≥22 h of wear time) divided by expected days, and daily adherence as mean hours of wear time per 24 h period. Optimal, moderate, and low long-term and daily adherence groups were defined as long-term adherence above or below 95 and 75% a

SUBMITTER: Frodi DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11417489 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature