An Intervention to Improve Management of Dyslipidemia in Primary Care

The University of The West Indies

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Diabetes Melletus; Obesity; Dyslipidemia; Cardiovascular Disease

Treatments: Other: Audit; Other: Physician Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02438943

ECP218,11/12

Details and patient eligibility

About

To assess the effectiveness of a clinical audit and physician based intervention in improving the management of dyslipidemia at Health centres in the Southeast Health Region of Jamaica

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Attended the clinic for at least 18 months
• Is diagnosed with any of hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, stroke, coronary heart disease (including angina, myocardial infarction), congestive cardiac failure or peripheral arterial disease, were eligible to be included in the audit

Exclusion criteria

• acutely ill or was diagnosed with established kidney disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

Audit and Physician intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

The intervention will comprise the feedback of the results of the baseline audit, training in motivational interviewing for clinic staff, use of a physician reminder stamp in the patients' charts and distribution of patient education cards

Treatment:

Other: Audit

Other: Physician Intervention

Audit only

Sham Comparator group

Description:

The intervention will comprise the feedback of the results of the baseline audit only

Treatment:

Other: Audit