Can education improve patients' understanding of their cardiac risk?

A randomised trial of the PREDICT programme to improve heart attack patients' understanding of their cardiac risk

Status

Not yet recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12607000212459

Enrollment

100

Registered

2007-04-17

Start date

2007-05-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The study aims to evaluate whether a brief nurse-patient session using PREDICT software to calculate personal cardiac risk can increase patients' understanding of their cardiac risk level compared to a control group who do not get the session.

Interventions

Patients are randomised to receive either the intervention described below plus standard care, or to standard care only. The intervention is a one-off session in addition to standard care. A nurse uses the PREDICT computer programme in an individual session (30 minutes) with hospitalised acute coronary syndrome patients to go through personal risk factors and calculation of personal cardiac risk. The nurse explains the computer printout of personal risk to the patient. PREDICT is the registered

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Factorial

Primary purpose

Educational / counselling / training

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Must have been admitted for acute coronary syndrome, must be medically stable.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who can't speak English, are too medically unwell, or who decline consent.

Outcome results