Effect of an Adult EDUcation Program on CArdiovascular ouTcomEs in Post-myocardial-infarction Patients (EDUCATE)

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Myocardial Infarction

Treatments: Other: Adult education program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04007887

CARD EBD2369/12-05-2017

Details and patient eligibility

About

A non-MD-led adult education program consisting in 10 one-hour sessions designed to provide information and motivation will be offered to patients who have recently been hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (STEMI and NSTEMI), regarding the management of their treatment and strategies to aggressively optimize control of cardiovascular risk factors..

The intervention arm will be compared to a control group of patients treated with usual care.

Enrollment: 320 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• History of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), Type Ι, according to the 3rd Universal Definition of MI, within the preceding 6 weeks
• Absence of substantial cognitive dysfunction (Mini Mental State examination score ≥24)

Exclusion criteria

• Age >80 years or <18 years

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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320 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Post-MI patients attending an adult education program designed to inform and motivate them on how to best control cardiovascular risk factors as a means to offer optimized secondary prevention of cardiovascular events

Treatment:

Other: Adult education program

Controls

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care for post-MI patients