Access to Mobile Health Interventions Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Insights Into the Digital Divide From the CONNECT-HF mHealth Substudy.
Access to Mobile Health Interventions Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Insights Into the Digital Divide From the CONNECT-HF mHealth Substudy.
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因心力衰竭住院的患者获得移动健康干预措施:从 CONNECT-HF mHealth 子研究中洞察数字鸿沟。
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10.1161/circheartfailure.123.011140
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2024
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DeVore,Ada
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Diamond,JamieE;Kaltenbach,LisaA;Granger,BradiB;Fonarow,GreggC;Al-Khalidi,HusseinR;Albert,NancyM;Butler,Javed;Allen,LarryA;Lanfear,DavidE;Thibodeau,JenniferT;Granger,ChristopherB;Hernandez,AdrianF;Ariely,Dan;DeVore,Ada
Digital health interventions have the potential to improve care and outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease at a population level. Implementation of digital health interventions, including mobile health (mHealth) applications, requires engagement from multiple stakeholders, from legislators to technology companies. An essential and unresolved challenge across stakeholders is improving digital health access for patients. Heart failure (HF) guidelines highlight the need for more studies on digital health as a strategy to improve HF care. Currently, limited data exist to strategically improve digital health access among patients with HF. To address this, we analyzed the characteristics of participants enrolled in the mHealth substudy of CONNECTHF (Care Optimization Through Patient and Hospital Engagement Clinical Trial for Heart Failure). CONNECT-HF was a multicenter, cluster-randomized trial to evaluate the effect of a year-long, postdischarge, quality improvement intervention. 1, 2 Participants had a left ventricular ejection fraction≤ 40% and were discharged after an HF hospitalization from March 2017 to May 2020. An optional, prospective, ancillary substudy evaluated a mobile application intended to improve HF care. 3 Participants were screened at 72 hospitals across the United States and were considered to have mHealth access if they met the following screening criteria defined by the CONNECT-HF investigators:(1) owned a smartphone,(2) had mobile internet access,(3) had smartphone email access, and (4) were able to download a weather application on the smartphone when prompted. All sites obtained institutional review board approval, and all participants were required to sign written informed consent before the collection of any study data. Data for this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request. Baseline characteristics were summarized using standard statistical methods. Multivariable logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with digital access and included demographics, clinical factors, health care site region, and socioeconomic status factors. Socioeconomic status variables were determined by linking the patient ZIP Code to the 2018 Census Bureau American Community Survey data median household income, college graduation rate, and unemployment rate. Of the 2044 participants evaluated, 889 (43%) passed the 4 screening criteria. Of 1155 without mHealth access, 589 (51%) had no smartphone, 927 (80%) could not access mobile internet, 1053 (91%) could not access smartphone email, and 1122 (97%) could not download a weather application. The results of unadjusted analyses are reported (Table). Factors independently associated with increased mHealth access included younger