None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Australian women have high rates of poorly controlled cardiovascular risk factors. In turn, cardiovascular (CV) disease is responsible for the death of 22 women every day in Australia. The ‘Heart Health Check’ is an MBS item number allowing general practitioners to be reimbursed for performing a formal CV risk assessment on a patient. Currently only around 1.1% of eligible NSW women have a formal ‘Heart Health Check’ each year with their GP. This study aims to understand the value of promoting CV risk assessment outside traditional health care settings among female attendees of NSW hairdressing salons. The researchers hypothesise that the intervention will: (i) Increase the proportion of women having a Medicare-rebated Heart Health Check; (ii) Increase the proportion with at-risk levels of cardiovascular risk factors identified; and (iii) Increase the use of medications for cardiovascular risk management
Interventions
Salon staff will direct their clients aged 45 years or older to a QR code which opens the study website. The decision to engage with the QR code and study website is entirely at the discretion of the potential participant. Intervention participants will be given online and printed generic women’s health advice and targeted cardiovascular (CV) risk materials designed specifically for this study at baseline comprising:
• Information about cardiovascular disease risk factors in women and the impor
Salon staff will direct their clients aged 45 years or older to a QR code which opens the study website. The decision to engage with the QR code and study website is entirely at the discretion of the potential participant. Intervention participants will be given online and printed generic women’s health advice and targeted cardiovascular (CV) risk materials designed specifically for this study at baseline comprising: • Information about cardiovascular disease risk factors in women and the importance of a formal CV risk assessment and specific advice to book a Heart Health Check with their general practitioner. The materials will take approximately 5 minutes to read through. • A letter for their general practitioner that promotes a formal Heart Health Check using the Medicare item number if appropriate. The study will conducted in each salon until 27 participants have been recruited or 12 months from recruitment start date has passed (whichever occurs first). After participants have consented and scrolled through the study materials, they will progress through the website to view a health questionnaire. Participants that complete the questionnaire will have viewed the study materials.
Sponsors
The George Institute for Global Health
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
45 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
1. Women aged greater than or equal to 45 years attending a hairdressing salon 2. Able to provide online informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Individuals will be ineligible if they plan to leave Australia within the trial follow-up period of 6 months.
Outcome results
None listed