Modelo de aceptación tecnológica de la aplicación móvil de seguimiento ControlVit® en pacientes con falla cardiaca

Abstract

Introduction: Mobile phone based remote monitoring systems for heart failure patients could become simple and affordable tools to improve home management. Objective: to identify utility and acceptance of ControlVit ® in heart failure patients. Method: descriptive observational pilot study in 20 outpatients with reduced ejection fraction, attending at hospital heart failure program. For six months, patients use the ControlVit ® application, which supplies patient information to improve self-ca-re and allows daily recording of specific medical variables. The data was recorded in the system log to verify frequency and data transmission. A technological acceptance questionnaire (TAM) was applied to all patients and professionals. A descriptive analysis with absolute and relative frequency distribution was also performed. Results: 100% of patients recognized the Contiene información para mejorar el autocuidado y permite al paciente registrar biomedidas (peso, presión arterial, frecuencia cardiaca) y síntomas de descompensación que generan alertas al profesional encargado. iniciales usefulness of the compared to self-care, 90 deny technological anxiety or of using due to the of Overall, 164 real-time alerts were detected, weight gain was the most frequent (49 %) and 91 % of patients had no hospital readmissions. Conclusion: The ControlVit ® application is useful for the early detection of symptoms that allow timely detection of complications and early modification of treatment. The excellent acceptance of the application by patients and its ease of use, raise the possibility of implementing it as a complementary monitoring strategy in patients with heart failure.