Rationale and design of the Atrial Fibrillation health Literacy Information Technology Trial: (AF-LITT).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia that is challenging for patients and adversely impacts health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Long-term management of AF requires that patients adhere to complex therapies, understand difficult terminology, navigate subspecialty care, and have continued symptom monitoring with the goal of preventing adverse outcomes. Continued interventions to ameliorate the patient experience of AF are essential.

Design

The Atrial Fibrillation health Literacy Information Technology Trial (AF-LITT; NCT03093558) is an investigator-initiated, 2-arm randomized clinical trial (RCT). This RCT is a pilot in order to implement a novel, smartphone-based intervention to address the patient experience of AF. This pilot RCT will compar

SUBMITTER: Guhl EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5641265 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature