0202510070004

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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 2025-10-07

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.
Category
research

Inputs

individual

Connie Henson


individual

Kylie Gwynne


individual

John Yelland


individual

Kerri Colegate


individual

Ben Freedman


individual

Katrina Ward


individual

Blade Bancroft-Duroux


individual

Belinda Tully


individual

Debbie McGowen


individual

Tamara Miller


individual

Vita Christie


individual

Jack Nunn (link)



ID: 0000-0003-0316-3254
individual

Larka Cutmore


individual

Nida Afzal


individual

Hiram Brooke


organisation

Science for All



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

Outputs and impacts

STARDIT report information

STARDIT report authors
Jack Nunn (link)
0000-0003-0316-3254

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