Sensor-controlled Digital Game for Heart Failure Self-management

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Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

This study evaluates a sensor-controlled digital game (SCDG) to motivate self-management behaviors of weight monitoring and physical activity in older adults with heart failure (HF). Half of the participants will receive the SCDG app and weight monitoring and physical activity sensors and the other half will receive only the weight monitoring and physical activity sensors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03947983

Run by

University of Texas at Austin

People needed

38

Starts

2019-11-12

Expected to finish

2021-01-30

Last updated by the study team

2021-06-28

Who can join

Age: 55 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 55 years or older
• New York Heart Association (NYHA) heart failure classification of I to III that permits minimal physical activity without discomfort
• Understand English
• Pass a mini-cognitive screen
• Score of less than 2 (able to independently walk without using a cane or walker) on the Outcome and Assessment Information Set item for ambulation/locomotion
• Ownership of a smartphone or digital tablet

You may not qualify if…

• Severe visual (e.g., legally blind) or tactile (e.g., severe arthritis) impairments that adversely prevent the use of a smartphone or sensor devices
• History of renal failure which adversely affects heart failure prognosis
• Diagnosis of an end stage or terminal illness (e.g., cancer).

Where it is running

• Cardiac Floor, Seton Medical Center Austin — Austin, Texas, United States
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Seton Medical Center Austin — Austin, Texas, United States

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