NCT05056129Recruiting
Sensor-controlled Digital Game for Heart Failure Self-management: A Clinical Trial
Sensor-controlled Digital Game for Heart Failure Selfmanagement Behavior Adherence: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 16 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study evaluates a sensor-controlled digital game (SCDG) to motivate self-management behaviors of weight monitoring and physical activity in adults with heart failure (HF). Half of the participants will receive the SCDG app and weight monitoring and physical activity sensors and the other half will receive only the weight monitoring and physical activity sensors.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 200 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 17 Sept 2021
- Start date
- 1 Nov 2022
- Primary completion date
- 30 Dec 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Texas at Austin
- Diseases
- Heart failure
- NCT number
- NCT05056129
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 200
- From 1 Nov 2022 to the primary completion date, 30 Dec 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- a history of renal failure, which adversely affects HF prognosis
- a diagnosis of an end-stage or terminal illness (e.g., cancer)
- undergone heart transplantation, or implantation of a durable mechanical circulatory support device (e.g., left ventricular assist device) due to unique self-management needs.
Other
- severe visual (e.g., legally blind) or tactile (e.g., severe arthritis) impairments that adversely prevent the use of a smartphone or sensor devices;
Who the study is looking for
- Age 45 years or older
- New York Heart Association (NYHA) heart failure classification of I to III that permits minimal physical activity without discomfort
- have experienced HF hospitalization in the past 12 months
- be fluent in English
- Pass a mini-cognitive screen
- Score of less than 2 (able to independently walk without using a cane or walker) on the Outcome and Assessment Information Set item for ambulation/locomotion
Age in the registry: 45 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Texas Austin Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Austin | United States | Recruiting |
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