Mobile App With Patient Financial Incentives for Adherence to Heart Failure Medications & Daily Self-Weighing
Heart Failure, Heart Failure, Congestive, Heart Failure, Systolic
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Heart Failure focused on measuring Adherence, Financial Incentives, Remote Monitoring, Self-Weighing, Behavioral Economics, Telehealth, mobile health (mHealth), Smartphone App, Wellth App
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Admitted to or discharged from University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro (UMPCC) with the primary diagnosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (ICD-10 code I50.2x)
- Standard of care medications for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
- Own a smart phone with a sufficient data plan or home Wi-Fi. Up to 30 phones can be provided if needed.
- Able to speak and understand either English or Spanish and able to learn the Wellth app.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of HF following non-cardiac admission
- Discharge to a care facility (anywhere that is not home)
- Inability to step on a scale and steady oneself to obtain an accurate weight
- Cognitive impairment or documented psychiatric illness that limits ability to understand and respond to health-related questions
- Inability to operate a mobile phone
Sites / Locations
- University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Intervention Arm
Standard of Care (Control) Arm
Subjects in the treatment arm will be offered a $150 incentive to use the Wellth app each day to log one daily self-weighing and one medication check-in. If a sudden jump in weight is detected among any subjects receiving the Financial Incentive, Mobile Phone App, and Cellular Scale, a UMCPP physician or nurse will then call the patient to assess the patient's symptoms (i.e. increasing shortness of breath or decreases in exertional tolerance, medication and dietary adherence).
Patients randomized to the standard of care arm will not receive the Wellth app or scale. They will have the usual discharge instructions as prescribed by their health care team.