A Patient-Oriented App (ThessHF) to Improve Self-Care Quality in Heart Failure: From Evidence-Based Design to Pilot Study.
Constantinos BakogiannisAnastasios TsarouchasDimitrios MouselimisCharalampos LazaridisEfstratios K TheofillogianakosAntonios BillisStergios TzikasNikolaos FragakisPanagiotis D BamidisChristodoulos E PapadopoulosVassilios P VassilikosPublished in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2021)
The need for telehealth services and remote self-care management in HF is of vital importance, especially in periods such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We developed a user-friendly mHealth app to promote remote self-care support in HF. In this pilot study, the use of the ThessHF app was associated with an increase in the quality of self-care. A future multicenter study will investigate the effect of the app use on long-term outcomes in patients with HF.