Increasing Engagement in the Electronic Framingham Heart Study: Factorial Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphone apps and mobile health devices offer innovative ways to collect longitudinal cardiovascular data. Randomized evidence regarding effective strategies to maintain longitudinal engagement is limited.

Objective

This study aimed to evaluate smartphone messaging interventions on remote transmission of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) data.

Methods

We conducted a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial blinded randomized trial with randomization implemented centrally to ensure allocation concealment. We invited participants from the Electronic Framingham Heart Study (eFHS), an e-cohort embedded in the FHS, and asked participants to measure their BP (Withings digital cuff) weekly and wear their smartwatch daily. We assessed 3 weekly notification strategies to promote

SUBMITTER: Trinquart L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898831 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature