Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Among People With Spinal Cord Injury

Rigshospitalet

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments: Other: A controlled multimodal intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03689023

Primary study

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a controlled pragmatic implementation study in clinical practice, with a primary focus on cardiovascular risk reduction through adherence to behavioral interventions related to physical activity and healthy diet.The intervention is interdisciplinary, multimodal and patient activating and uses the existing setting and work flows at the clinic, ensuring that the patients receive education about cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity and healthy diet through a systematic approach including targeted patient education.

Full description

This clinical intervention study will investigate the effectiveness of a uniform and systematic institutional strategy incorporating targeted strategic patient education about cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity and a healthy diet lifestyle starting early in the primary rehabilitation process with 6 months of follow up compared to a historic control group. Test - retest reliability of four different VO2 peak tests and a multi sensor accelerometer respectively will be assessed as well.

Enrollment: 97 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All newly injured patients (within the last 12 months) with Spinal Cord Injury admitted at Clinic for Spinal Cord Injuries, Rigshospitalet.

Exclusion criteria

• Insufficient skills in Danish language
• Reduced mental function that prevents reading and answering the questionnaires

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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97 participants in 1 patient group

A controlled multimodal intervention

Experimental group

Description:

A uniform and systematic patient education about cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity and a healthy diet lifestyle starting early in the primary rehabilitation process with 6 months of follow up.

Treatment:

Other: A controlled multimodal intervention