Secondary Care - Prescribing Lifestyle Adjustments for Cardiovascular Health (S-PLAC 2)

University of South Wales

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Cardiovascular Diseases; Health Behavior; Cardiovascular Risk Factor

Treatments: Behavioral: Lifestyle Prescription (LRx)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04118673

260481

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prescribing lifestyle changes to patients who have cardiovascular disease (CVD) may be an extremely cost effective mechanism of improving health individually and for the NHS. Positive lifestyle changes such as improved diet, increased physical activity, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol consumption have been proven to reform the health status of individuals with CVD. S-PLAC 2 is a phase II study to determine the efficacy of a lifestyle prescription (L℞) in patients and healthcare practitioners in a secondary care setting (i.e. hospital clinics/wards).

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 and over
• Able and willing to provide written informed consent
• Understands written and spoken English
• Either an in/out- patient of Cardiology

Exclusion criteria

• Participant is unwilling or unable to provide written informed consent
• Participant is pregnant
• Participant has a drug dependency

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Control (Standard Care)

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care during consultations. Advice and guidance offered by clinicians verbally and sometimes the addition of leaflets or a referral.

Intervention (Standard Care plus Lifestyle prescription - LRx)

Experimental group

Description:

Standard care during consultations with the addition of a physical lifestyle prescription. Advice and guidance will be offered by clinicians verbally, whilst being supported with a lifestyle prescription and a possible referral if required.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lifestyle Prescription (LRx)