0202510070004

The WEAR IT Study Description: This study explores how technologies such as smart watches can support heart health among Aboriginal people. Smart watches can now track heart health and physical activity, but it is not yet known how useful these tools are for Aboriginal communities.

The study aims to learn whether these technologies might help improve heart health outcomes for Aboriginal people. Participants will also have the opportunity to learn more about their own heart health by wearing a smart watch.

This research aims to determine what is needed to implement acceptable and efficacious wearables programs for older Indigenous people associated with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO).

Identify which of the health metrics provided through wearable technologies (watches and patches) Indigenous people are interested in monitoring and sharing with their healthcare professionals.

Determine if augmenting standard care with digital health technologies leads to earlier screening and better management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in Indigenous adults aged 55 and older.

The perspectives of ACCO staff about integrating data from wearable programs into community organisations, including primary care.
STARDIT ID: 0202510070004

Dates

State ongoing
Start 2024-11-01
Form updated 2025-10-09

Location

New South Wales, Australia

URL

https://chri.au/wear-it/

Aims

learn whether smart watches might help improve heart health outcomes for Aboriginal people

determine what is needed to implement acceptable and efficacious wearables programs for older Indigenous people associated with Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCO)

Identify which of the health metrics provided through wearable technologies (watches and patches) Indigenous people are interested in monitoring and sharing with their healthcare professionals.

Determine if augmenting standard care with digital health technologies leads to earlier screening and better management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in Indigenous adults aged 55 and older.

Integrate the perspectives of ACCO staff about integrating data from wearable programs into community organisations, including primary care.

Keywords

wearables

Category

research

Inputs

individual

Connie Henson

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individual

Kylie Gwynne

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individual

John Yelland

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individual

Kerri Colegate

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individual

Ben Freedman

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individual

Katrina Ward

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individual

Blade Bancroft-Duroux

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individual

Belinda Tully

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individual

Debbie McGowen

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individual

Tamara Miller

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individual

Vita Christie

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individual

Jack Nunn (link)

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ID: 0000-0003-0316-3254

individual

Larka Cutmore

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individual

Nida Afzal

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individual

Hiram Brooke

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organisation

Science for All

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Compensation: paid

funding

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Heart Foundation

Ethics approver

AH&MRC Human Research Ethics Committee (link)
ID: HREC Reference number: 2236/24

Outputs and impacts

other

State: Ongoing

Consent form for participants (link)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20251007044736/https://redcap.unsw.edu.au/surveys/?s=FL8A7FY4T8CWLEEA

STARDIT report information

STARDIT report authors

Jack Nunn (link)
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