Nurse-led Reminder Program for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases

Università degli Studi 'G. d'Annunzio' Chieti e Pescara

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hypertension; Cardiovascular Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Nurse-led reminder through email.

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01823588

Nurse led

Details and patient eligibility

About

A number of strategies have been evaluated to improve the prevention and control of the main cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors. Nursing telephonic and tele-counseling individualized lifestyle educational programs were found to improve blood pressure (BP) control and adherence to healthy lifestyle. This study aims at evaluating for the first time the efficacy of a nurse-led reminder program through email (NRP-e) to improve CVD risk factors among hypertensive adults.

Participants will receive usual care and a guideline-based educational program on BP control and healthy lifestyle habits. Subjects in the NRP-e group will also receive weekly email alerts and phone calls from a nurse care manager for 6 months. Emails contain a reminder program on the compliance with a healthy lifestyle based upon current guidelines for CVD prevention. Follow-up visits will be scheduled at 1, 3 and 6 months after enrollment; randomization will be made centrally and blood samples will be evaluated into a single, accredited laboratory.

Enrollment: 203 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to be eligible, all subjects had to be hypertensive (on active treatment for hypertension, or systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg; or
• diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg).
• speaking and reading Italian,
• having a active phone number and an email address, and
• providing a signed informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• mental illness;
• nursing home institutionalization;
• pregnancy;
• previous cardiovascular major events, non-modifiable cardiovascular risk-factors (i.e. diabetes).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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203 participants in 2 patient groups

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Educational program and usual cardiovascular prevention.

Nurse-led reminder through email

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to usual care and educational program, the intervention group will also receive email alerts and phone calls from the nurse-care manager (NCM)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nurse-led reminder through email.