Feeding Education in Patients Submitted to Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA-Nutri)

University of Sao Paulo General Hospital

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Coronary Disease; Coronary Angioplasty

Treatments: Other: Traditional; Behavioral: Behavioral

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01028066

CAPPesq 0443/07

FAPESP 2007/54652-8

Details and patient eligibility

About

The simple knowledge that practices healthy lifestyle are important to reduce or prevent the progression of cardiovascular diseases it is not enough for effective changes accordingly. To nutritional education be successful, needs to promote changes in eating habits and not just transmit information. This is a behavioral intervention study in 200 consecutive patients submitted to percutaneous transluminary coronary angioplasty. The participants were randomized in two groups: intervention and control.

The intervention was a dialogic nutritional counseling and the control arm was a traditional nutritional counseling.

All participants will undergo long-term follow-up for cardiovascular events.

Full description

Patients were hospitalized to realize elective coronary angioplasty in a especialized hospital in cardiovascular disease.

All data were obtained by a trained nutritionist.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• preserved cognitive status

Exclusion criteria

• no availability to attend the meetings of nutritional guidance

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Traditional

Active Comparator group

Description:

Traditional nutritional counseling

Treatment:

Other: Traditional

Behavioral

Experimental group

Description:

Dialogic nutritional counseling

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral