Mobile App for Heart Failure

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Treatments: Other: Mobile application; Other: Bluetooth-connected monitoring devices and a feedback system

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05668000

SMART-HF

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators developed a mobile health platform to self-management in HF. The aim of this study is to evaluate whether this smartphone app-based intervention can improve symptoms of HF when compared to usual care in HF patients.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients aged 20 years or older hospitalized for acute heart failure.
• Patients who have obvious symptoms or sign of HF at admission
• N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) ≥400 pg/mL or brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) ≥100 pg/mL.
• participants should be able to use smartphone well.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have baseline systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg or resting heart rate <50 beats per minutes
• Patients who cannot use smartphone
• Patients who had cardiac implantable electronic device will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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84 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

AIDA/KT-app with devices

Experimental group

Description:

AIDA/KT-app with devices : with device link and with feedback

Treatment:

Other: Mobile application

Other: Bluetooth-connected monitoring devices and a feedback system

AIDA/KT-app only

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

AIDA/KT-app only : no device link or no feedback

Treatment:

Other: Mobile application