Effect of Patient Education on Compliance and Cardiovascular Risk Parameters

NCT02096887 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: WS964765
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,000
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Patient's awareness of their risk factors for heart disease and their active involvement in their own management plan can help improve their adherence to treatment and their risk profile. The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of patient education and awareness of heart disease risk factors on compliance to medication and lifestyle modification.

Conditions

Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Keywords

education; compliance; risk factors

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• cardiovascualr risk factor control

  Cardiovascular risk factors control as assessed by the following parameters: HbA1C, Blood pressure, LDL-C, BMI and smoking cessation

  12 months

• medication compliance

  Medication compliance as assessed by Morisky scale

  12 months

Study Arms (1)

Patient Education

OTHER

Patient Education

Behavioral: Patient Education

Interventions

Patient Education BEHAVIORAL

Patient Education using the following two instruments: 1. Framingham Risk Score calculator: 2. Know your numbers patient booklet

Patient Education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 30 Years - 70 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patients with one or more CVD risk factors will be consecutively enrolled, smokers and obese patients should have an additional risk factors
• The risk factors are based on Framingham Risk Score calculator and include smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol ,diabetes and being overweight or obese
• All participants must be adults (30 -70 years of age) who give an informed consent
• All participants should be of Kuwaity nationality, literate and fluent in either Arabic or English
• Patients are likely to be available for a one year follow up

You may not qualify if:

• Patients with mental disability or severe psychiatric disorder who are unable to provide informed consent or participate in educational activities.
• Patients with severe visual or hearing disability that will prevent participation in the educational activity
• Patients \<30 years or \>70 years of age
• Illiterate patients
• Non Kuwaity nationals
• Patients who are not permanently resident in Kuwait
• Patient who refuse to provide the informed consent

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization: lead
• Pfizer: collaborator

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Patient Compliance

Interventions

Patient Education as Topic

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior; Behavior

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Health Education; Preventive Health Services; Health Services; Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services

Study Officials

• Samia Almusallam, FRCGP

  Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Maleka M Serour, MRCGP/ INT

  Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Wafa A Rashed, FRCP

  Ministry of Health -Mubarak Hospital- Cardiology unit

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Director of the family medicine residency program

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 24, 2014
• First Posted: March 26, 2014
• Study Start: June 1, 2014
• Primary Completion: January 1, 2015
• Study Completion: January 1, 2016
• Last Updated: March 26, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-03