Thank you for your interest in heart failure research.
This questionnaire is designed to find out which parts of remote care technology are most important for patients such as yourself.
What is Remote Care?
Remote care is the use of technology to help carry out medical care that would normally be available in a hospital or a clinic, but within your own home instead. Examples include a wireless blood pressure reader or a digital scale that sends readings directly to the doctor from your home. As medical technology continues to improve, remote care is becoming more common in medicine as a way to look after long-term health conditions from home. It helps care for patients that have trouble travelling to appointments, and can also alert doctors early if a patient needs more care, so that they can be treated quicker.
Am I eligible?
To be eligible to complete this survey, you need to be over 18 and have been diagnosed with any form of long-term heart failure, including cardiomyopathy, or those caused by infection or genetic causes. If you meet this criteria, please continue to read on and fill out the questions; otherwise, you may exit the survey.
Why Heart Failure?
We have chosen patients with heart failure because this is a condition which often affects patients over a long period of time. Patients with heart failure often have other health conditions too, that make their care more complex so these patients could greatly benefit from improved health monitoring at home.
How will this survey help patients like me?
With the knowledge from this study, we can begin to design new technologies that suit heart failure patients better, so that they can continue to be used for longer and provide the greatest benefit for patients such as yourself. Remote care will soon have a much bigger role in medical care, and this research is an important way of bringing it closer to patients by finding out what your preferences are. The results of this study will directly help us create technologies for improving the care of heart failure, which could be used by you in the near future.
How do I complete the questionnaire?
The questionnaire will consist of 16 questions which should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. You will be presented with an example of a remote care technology, and will be given two options that describe various features of the technology. For each question, you will be asked to pick which of the two technologies (A or B) you would prefer to use, based on the descriptions provided.
What will happen to my data?
All data is anonymised and confidential. This survey will not ask any personal questions or any information that could be used to identify you. The data will be stored on a secure online server for as long as the survey is open (3 months from the start date of the survey), after which it will be downloaded to a secure university account and will only accessible by the researchers. As your information is fully anonymised, we unfortunately cannot contact you with the results of the study. However the study will be published on completion and you can visit our website below to find out any new project updates.
