A randomized trial of mobile health support for heart failure patients and their informal caregivers: impacts on caregiver-reported outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile health services may improve chronic illness care, but interventions rarely support informal caregivers' efforts.

Objectives

To determine whether automated feedback to caregivers of chronic heart failure patients impacts caregiving burden and assistance with self-management.

Research design

Randomized comparative effectiveness trial.

Subjects

A total of 369 heart failure patients were recruited from a Veterans Health Administration health care system. All patients participated with a "CarePartner" or informal caregiver outside their household.

Intervention

Patients randomized to "standard mHealth" received weekly automated self-care support calls for 12 months with notifications about problems sent to clinicians. "mobile health+CarePartn

SUBMITTER: Piette JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4503477 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature