Use of Mobile Apps in Heart Failure Self-management: Qualitative Study Exploring the Patient and Primary Care Clinician Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mobile apps have the potential to support patients with heart failure and facilitate disease self-management, but this area of research is recent and rapidly evolving, with inconsistent results for efficacy. So far, most of the published studies evaluated the feasibility of a specific app or assessed the quality of apps available in app stores. Research is needed to explore patients' and clinicians' perspectives to guide app development, evaluation, and implementation into models of care.

Objective

This study aims to explore the patient and primary care clinician perspective on the facilitators and barriers to using mobile apps, as well as desired features, to support heart failure self-management.

Methods

This is a qualitative phenomenological study involv

SUBMITTER: Bezerra Giordan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9069281 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature