Trial on Impact of HealthPROMISE Mobile App on Inflammatory Bowel Disease Care and Quality of Life

Mount Sinai Health System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Ulcerative Colitis; Crohn's Disease

Treatments: Other: HealthPROMISE users; Other: Control Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02322307

GCO 12-1195

12-0303(1001) (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

HealthPROMISE is a mobile application (app) for patients that allows regular tracking of symptoms by patients and communicates them to physicians. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to determine the impact of the HealthPROMISE application on improving patient outcomes. The trial will look at how much patients use the application, whether physicians change treatment in response to new information from patients, and how the patients quality of life change over the span of the study. The investigators hypothesize that HealthPROMISE will enhance physician-patient communication and improve clinical outcomes.

Full description

This study will prospectively enroll about 300 patients with Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis presenting at the Mount Sinai Health System.

Eligible participants who complete the informed consent will fill a Tablet or Web-based questionnaire at the end of which they will be given a pin and offered to download the HealthPROMISE app or an education app. Patients who download HealthPROMISE app will then be requested to provide updates on quality metrics, a quality of life questionnaire, and emergency visits and hospitalizations.

Data will be collected continuously throughout the study using the mobile health app. Study endpoints will primarily be assessed using "intention to treat" analysis. Additionally, per protocol analysis of data will be performed for patients who have logged into the application at least 4 times in 12 months. The total study duration will be 2 years (104 weeks). At 1 year (52 weeks), an interim analysis will be done to determine if study needs to be continued for full 104 weeks. Furthermore, patients in either arm who login using PIN but not completing week 52 (or week 104) exit survey will be considered as "lost to follow up".

Enrollment: 320 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age >18 years,
• Internet or Smartphone access
• Ability to complete a Tablet or web-based questionnaire in English language.

Exclusion criteria

• Presence of short bowel syndrome, stoma or pouch.
• Presence of a condition or disease that, in the opinion of the investigators, may make it exceedingly difficult for the patient to use HealthPROMISE App, including, but not limited to, advanced dementia.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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320 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

HealthPROMISE users

Experimental group

Description:

These are patients who will receive HealthPROMISE application. Patients will be asked to track their quality of life and quality of care using standardized metrics. A combination of different questionnaires (i.e. Short IBD Questionnaire), symptom updates, and IBD quality indicators will be the collected during this study through the HealthPROMISE application.

Treatment:

Other: HealthPROMISE users

Control Group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

After entering baseline questionnaire, control patients get a link to download education application along with PIN. Once patients install app on their devices and use the PIN, the patient is considered to be enrolled in the trial from intention to treat perspective. This control app allows access to patient education content only. There is not any direct feedback on Quality of Life, quality of care and resource utilization.

Treatment:

Other: Control Group