A Study to Develop and Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Mobile App: Samrudheart on Self-Care Management of a Patient with Heart Failure in Terms of Knowledge, Practice, and Adherence to Treatment among Heart Failure Patients in Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
Authors: . Poonam , Dey Madhumita , Mathur R. G 
Published: June 2021

Topic: A study to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of mobile app: Samrudheart on self-care management of patient with heart failure in terms of knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment among heart failure patients in Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
Objectives: The objectives of the study were to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of mobile app: Samrudheart on self-care management of patient with heart failure, to assess and evaluate the knowledge, practice, and adherence to the treatment of heart failure patients, to find the relationship between knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment after the administration of mobile app, on heart failure patients, to find the association between knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment of heart failure patients after the administration of mobile app on selfcare management of heart failure with selected variables like age, sex, education status, family income, BMI, duration of illness, smoking, tobacco use, alcohol intake, lifestyle, diet, regular follow-up.
Methodology: The research approach was the quasi-experimental approach. The Research design was one group pre-test and post-test control group design. The research setting selected for the study was cardiology OPD of VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. The sample was comprised of (60) Heart Failure patients attending cardiology OPD. The independent variable in the study was a mobile app: Samrudheart and reminder call for adherence to treatment on self-care management of a patient with heart failure and the dependent variable was knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment on self-care management of heart failure. The tool used for data collection were demographic data of sample characteristics, health determinant data of sample characteristics, structured knowledge questionnaire, structured practice checklist, structured adherence to the treatment rating scale, and structured opinionnaire. The KR-20, inter-observer and cronbach alpha formula was used to assess the reliability of tools.
Results: Major findings of the study revealed that initially, the heart failure patients had poor knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment on self-care management of heart failure. The mobile app was found to be effective in improving the knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment of heart failure patients. There was no significant association between the knowledge, treatment adherence and not influenced by the selected variables except the practice scores are influenced by the regular follow up.
Conclusion: Findings revealed that the mobile app: Samrudheart was found to be an effective strategy in improving the knowledge, practice, and adherence to treatment on self-care management of a patient with heart failure.

Key words: Mobile App, Self-care management, Knowledge, Practice, Adherence, Heart Failure Patients.