Chronic Disease Mobile Educational Experience

Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Disease; Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Patient Education 101: Mobile Health Education Tool

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04090593

HS-19-00145

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a mobile health education module, in increasing hospitalized patients' understanding of their chronic illness, and in reducing 30-day hospital readmission rates. Half of the participants will receive the educational module intervention in addition to standard education, the other half will receive hospital standard practice education only.

Full description

Chronic disease is the leading cause of death and disability, costing the US healthcare system 1 trillion dollars annually. Successful management of these conditions critically requires patient understanding and engagement. Patients are advised to adhere to medications, redesign lifestyles, and navigate the health care system. Most of these care plan items require careful instruction and confirmation of shared understanding.

Mobile health technology has the potential to assist greatly with patient education, especially for hospitalized patients. This prospective study evaluates a specific mobile technology intervention, an educational and emotionally-engaging video patients watch while admitted for a complication related to one of these chronic diseases: Heart Failure, Diabetes, COPD, Asthma, Cirrhosis, Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• admission to medical service primary team for decompensation or complication of chronic disease.(e.g. heart failure)

Exclusion criteria

• cognitive disability or visual/auditory limitation that prevents self-interaction with educational module

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Educational Module Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention arm patients receive educational mobile module related to chronic condition that contributed to reason for admission.

Treatment:

Other: Patient Education 101: Mobile Health Education Tool

Hospital Practice Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control arm patients receive current, standard practice as related to patient education in the hospital (this does not include an educational mobile module).