Coronary Artery Disease, Decision Making
Conditions
Keywords
Risk Factors, Risk Reduction Behavior, Counseling
Brief summary
Decision Aids (DA) to inform patients about health care options and help them to participate in their care choices are widely advocated. The main argument for offering patients a choice is that patients' preferences vary, and health professionals cannot always know what is best for an individual, specially when different outcomes have different benefits and risk profiles. The standard modes of treatment for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) are coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, medication, and angioplasty. All three treatments for CAD work better when combined with cardiac risk factor modification behavior (CRFMB). CRFMB is important for the general public, but it is even more important for people with CAD because people with CAD have more at stake. In this RCT study we will evaluate the effectiveness of a CAD-DA with and witout an additional decision counseling program (DCP) on health outcomes and quality of life to improve enhancement of adherence to cardiac risk modification behavior. The CAD-DA is developed by the Ottawa Health Research Institute and Division of Clinical Epidemiology at Montreal General Hospital, for CAD patients facing the decision of making lifestyle changes to lower their cardiac risk factors. It provides patients with information about what they can you do to prevent the disease from progressing. The DCP is designed to systematically guide patients through the process of deciding what cardiac risk modification behaviors are important for them to carry out. A RCT where 360 CAD patients \> 18 of age scheduled for an angiogram at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Norway (RH) will be randomly assigned to: (1) CAD-DA group where subjects will receive, for take home, the CAD-DA prior to their scheduled angiogram; (2) DCP group where subjects in addition to the CAD-DA will receive an individual decisional counseling program (DCP) from a trained nurse counselor in their homes prior to their angiogram; and (3) the control group who will receive usual care. Data will be collected at four points: at the initial visit (T1), 2 months (T2), 4 months (T3) and 6 (T4) months after angiogram
Detailed description
As above
Interventions
BEHAVIORALDecision Counseling Program (DCP)
An individual decisional counseling program (DCP) to help them comprehend the information, adjust this information to their personal illness history and elicit their preferences for cardiac risk fctor modification behavior in light of this personalized information
BEHAVIORALCoronary Artery Disease Decision Aid
Coronary Artery Disease Decision Aid (CAD-DA) presented as a booklet called: Making Choices: Life Changes to Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke The CAD-DA is developed by the Ottawa Health Research Institute and Division of Clinical Epidemiology at Montreal General Hospital, in CAD patients facing the decision of making lifestyle changes to lower their cardiac risk factors and provides patients with information about what they can you do to prevent the disease from progressing.
Sponsors
Oslo University Hospital
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Age 18 and older * Scheduled for an angiogram * Able to read, write, and speak Norwegian * Live within approximately 100 km of Oslo * Have a telephone
Exclusion criteria
\- Cognitive impairment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Health Related Quality of Life | Repeated measures prior to patients angiogram and 2, 4, and 6 months after angiogram |
| Health outcomes (angina symptoms, body weight, cholesterol level, blood pressure, health service use) | Repeated measures prior to patients angiogram and 2, 4, and 6 months after angiogram |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intermediate outcome: adherence to cardiac risk factor modification behavior | Repeated measure 2, 4, and 6 months after angiogram |
| Mediating variables: knowledge, decisional conflict, intention to adhere to cardiac risk factor modification behavior, perceived susceptibility and severity of CAD progression, and benefits and barriers of cardiac risk factor modification behavior | Prior to patients angiogram, and 2 months following angiogram |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed