{"id":20476,"date":"2019-08-06T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/spyros-kitsiou-pi-of-new-500000-nih-research-grant\/"},"modified":"2019-08-06T13:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:02:46","slug":"spyros-kitsiou-pi-of-new-500000-nih-research-grant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/spyros-kitsiou-pi-of-new-500000-nih-research-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyros Kitsiou PI of new $500,000 NIH research grant"},"template":"","news_categories":[17,18],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-20476","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-grants","news_categories-research"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","intro_text_body":"<p>BHIS assistant professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/biomedical-health-information-sciences\/directory\/kitsiou-spyros\/\">Spyros Kitsiou<\/a><\/strong> is the recipient of a two-year $500,000 award from the National Institute of Nursing Research for his grant titled \u201cAn innovative mobile health technology intervention to improve self-care in patients with heart failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This new study will use a randomized controlled trial design to determine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a patient-centered intervention that promotes adherence to heart failure (HF) self-care through the use of (1) a mobile health app that interfaces with multiple connected health devices and wearable sensors (e.g. Fitbit), and comprises a number of self-monitoring, patient education, and adherence reminder tools for improving self-care; and (2) individually tailored text-messages targeting health beliefs, self-care efficacy, and HF-knowledge. This study represents an important step in identifying an affordable and scalable mHealth intervention that has the potential to bring about a new paradigm in self-care management of chronic heart failure.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"This new study will determine the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a patient-centered intervention that promotes adherence to heart failure self-care","content_author":"Spyros Kitsiou","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"intro_text_image":false,"intro_text_image_alt_text":"","intro_text_image_caption":"","intro_text_image_attribution":"","news_include_thumbnail":false,"news_thumbnail_image":false,"news_thumbnail_image_alt_text":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=20476"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=20476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}