Smartphone Ownership and Interest in Mobile Health Technologies for Self-care Among Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: Cross-sectional Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure (HF) is a highly prevalent chronic condition that places a substantial burden on patients, families, and health care systems worldwide. Recent advances in mobile health (mHealth) technologies offer great opportunities for supporting many aspects of HF self-care. There is a need to better understand patients' adoption of and interest in using mHealth for self-monitoring and management of HF symptoms.

Objective

The purpose of this study is to assess smartphone ownership and patient attitudes toward using mHealth technologies for HF self-care in a predominantly minority population in an urban clinical setting.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of adult outpatients (aged ≥18 years) at an academic outpatient HF clinic in the Midwest. Th

SUBMITTER: Leigh JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8800088 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature