Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of the Check Your Health Preventive Programme

University of Aarhus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Physical Inactivity; Health Promotion; Selfreported Quality of Health; Mental Health; Cardiovascular Disease

Treatments: Other: Health check

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02028195

Tryg 7-11-0500

Details and patient eligibility

About

Check your health is a prevention intervention designed to create awareness and action on health condition with focus at physical activity at a population-level to 30-49 years of age. It consists of a behavioural and clinical examination followed by either (I) referral to a health promoting consultation in general practice (II) targeted behavioural programmes at the local Health Centre or (III ) no need for follow-up; stratified after risk-profile. The CORE trial (Check your health) aim to investigate effectiveness on health and social outcomes of the preventive health check and to establish the cost-effectiveness according to life years gained; direct costs and total health costs. A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial has been established to meet the aims and in total 10.600 individuals from 35 practices have been randomized in to two groups that will be invited in 2013-14 and 2017-18 respectively. The group offered the preventive health check in 2013-14 will constitute the intervention group and the group examined in 2017 - 18 the control group. A follow up of the intervention group in 2017 - 18 will provide data for the intention to treat analysis revealing the effect. Outcome measures are level of physical activity, risk of getting cardiovascular disease, sick leave and labor market attachment.

Enrollment: 11,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• all citizens living in Randers Municipality aged 30-49 on 1 January 2012, identified in the Danish Civil Registers (DCR) and randomised for health check in 2013 or 2017.

Exclusion criteria

• Terminal illness, reported by their GP is exclusion criteria for receiving invitation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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11,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Health check

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention consists of invitation for a behavioural and clinical examination followed by either (I) referral to a health promoting consultation in general practice (II) targeted behavioural programmes at the local Health Centre or (III ) no need for follow-up.

Treatment:

Other: Health check

No invitation

No Intervention group

Description:

The persons randomised to the control arm does not get invitation to a health care examination before time for follow up in the intervention group.