| Education |
Provide information about heart failure. Provide information about self-care (eg, why you need to perform self-care activities and how to perform self-care activities). Improve health literacy. Provide training on problem-solving skills (eg, to respond to changes in symptoms or monitoring outputs). Provide information about how the intervention is beneficial. Provide staged information delivery over time.
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Education, training, enablement, and persuasion |
| Monitoring and feedback |
Monitor health (including physiological parameters and psychological status). Monitor self-care behaviors. Present data to the user, including that from medical investigations. Analyze trends and alert user (and health care practitioner) to changes outside of specified ranges. Provide feedback on health status changes.
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Education, persuasion, environmental restructuring, and enablement |
| Social connection and support |
Provide information about local groups relevant to heart failure and self-care activities. Connect users with other people with heart failure in the local area (like LinkedIn). Allow users to exchange stories and tips. Enable users to contact family, friends, and health care providers. Provide contact details for support.
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Education, incentivization, environmental restructuring, and modeling |
| Psychological and emotional support |
Provide tools for psychological well-being (including mindfulness). Provide support to change habits. Provide tools to address fear after diagnosis. Provide tools to help maintain sense of identity beyond health condition.
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Education, training, and enablement |
| Planning and preparing |
Provide a detailed care plan. Provide detailed instructions on how to perform self-care activities as they are being performed (eg, steps in taking medication). Tailor daily schedule to exercise tolerance. Remind the user to plan and perform self-care activities. Provide a place to record notes (eg, what was consumed). Provide access to a range of options along with decision-making support (eg, scan food for nutrition and database of common meals or foods). Deliver professionally approved advice and programs. Provide tools to train cognitive function (eg, memory games).
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Education, training, environmental restructuring, and enablement |
| Health care support |
Provide access to and communication with health care practitioners. Provide changes to the care plan when required. Support preparation for health care appointments (eg, notes and questions to cover in appointment). Share information with health care practitioner in advance of appointments. Support appointment booking. Share and store visual information during remote consultations. Provide information about different services and health care practitioners to support informed decision-making.
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Education, environmental restructuring, and enablement |
