The Effects of the ManageHF4Life Mobile App on Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The successful management of heart failure (HF) involves guideline-based medical therapy as well as self-management behavior. As a result, the management of HF is moving toward a proactive real-time technological model of assisting patients with monitoring and self-management.

Objective

The aim of this paper was to evaluate the efficacy of enhanced self-management via a mobile app intervention on health-related quality of life, self-management, and HF readmissions.

Methods

A single-center randomized controlled trial was performed. Participants older than 45 years and admitted for acute decompensated HF or recently discharged in the past 4 weeks were included. The intervention group ("app group") used a mobile app, and the intervention prompted daily self-mo

SUBMITTER: Dorsch MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8693200 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature