Wearable Monitoring Device in Daily Lives of Community-dwelling Older Adults

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Device Ineffective

Treatments: Device: Live With Wearable Monitoring Device program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05269303

A001523

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to implement an intervention program to promote the continued use of Wearable Monitoring Devices among older adults through a peer support approach facilitating the incorporation of Wearable Monitoring Devices in daily life.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged 60 or above
• own a smartphone
• able to communicate in Cantonese or Mandarin
• able to access the Internet at home or elsewhere

Exclusion criteria

• have a confirmed diagnosis of cognitive impairment
• bed-bound
• currently own a wearable monitoring device
• have already engaged in other wearable device studies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive a 3-month Live With Wearable Monitoring Device program.

Treatment:

Device: Live With Wearable Monitoring Device program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care. As with the participants in the intervention group, those in the control group can utilize the features in the Wearable Monitoring Device.