Cardial-MASS-Study: Influencing Factors on Reliability of Selfreported Weight and Height

NCT04321057 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: Cardial-MASS
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 731
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Height and weight are important informations in clinical life. Medication is dosed by them and weight, especially overweight, is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Mostly you have to rely on the self-reported informations, because there is plenty of work and little time to weigh and measure every patient. But can the investigators really trust this informations? Former studies have shown, that most of self-reported heights and weights differ from the measured ones. This fact might lead to a wrong dosage of medicine or underestimated risk factors. So the Cardial-MASS-Study tries to detect influencing factors on the reliability of self-reported informations especially among patients, treated at the cardiological department at Saarland University.

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Self-reported weight

  Patient´s self-reported weight and the measured weight will be compared.

  baseline

• Self-reported height

  Patient´s self-reported height and the measured height will be compared.

  baseline

Study Arms (6)

Group questionnaire

Patient's height and weight are asked by questionnaire in this group. It includes patients at the cardiological department of Saarland University.

Group male doctor

Patient's height and weight are asked by a male doctor in this group. It includes patients at the cardiological department of Saarland University.

Group female doctor

Patient's height and weight are asked by a female doctor in this group. It includes patients at the cardiological department of Saarland University.

Group male nurse

Patient's height and weight are asked by a male nurse in this group. It includes patients at the cardiological department of Saarland University.

Group female nurse

Patient's height and weight are asked by a female nurse in this group. It includes patients at the cardiological department of Saarland University.

Group family doctor

Patient's height and weight are asked by questionnaire in this group. This is the control group,including patients at a family doctor.

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients at Innere Medizin III, who participate voluntarily and who suffer at least from one cardiovascular disease

You may qualify if:

• Patients at Innere Medizin III (Cardiology), Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes (UKS)
• cardiovascular disease (Coronar-Vessel-Disease, Arrhythmia, Heart-attack, Hypertonus, stable heart failure)
• Patients at a family doctor

You may not qualify if:

• younger than 18 years
• Dementia
• cardial decompensation
• severe anemia (Hemoglobin\<9 mg/dl)
• cardial shock
• acute kidney failure
• factors, that prevent patients from answering the questionnaire
• factors, that prevent patients from being measured and weighted

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universität des Saarlandes: lead

Study Sites (1)

Clinic for Internal Medicine, Cardioloy, Angioloy, and Internal Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital

Homburg, Saarland, 66421, Germany

Location

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MeSH Terms

Conditions

Cardiovascular Diseases

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CONTROL
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 20, 2020
• First Posted: March 25, 2020
• Study Start: April 1, 2017
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2020
• Study Completion: June 1, 2021
• Last Updated: March 25, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

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