Cigarette Smoking, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, Hypertension, Obesity, Sedentary Lifestyle
Conditions
Keywords
primary prevention, patient knowledge, nurse, exercise, smoking cessation, weight loss
Brief summary
The investigators hypothesize that having health care providers other than physicians within a Groupe de Médecine de Famille conduct cardiovascular risk assessments and teach lifestyle interventions to primary prevention patients will increase the likelihood that patients will adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles. These objectives will be supported by providing subjects with a cardiovascular risk profile estimating the subject's risk of cardiovascular disease and teaching them how to use the resources related to lifestyle changes available on the www.myhealthcheckup.com Web site.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCVD risk profile
Cardiovascular risk assessment and behavioral counselling
Sponsors
Pfizer
McGill University
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
30 Years to 79 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Male or female subjects 30-79 years of age without known cardiovascular disease but with one or more risk factors such as obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, dyslipidemia, hypertension, cigarette smoking, or diabetes * Have provided informed consent * Recent (past 6 months) fasting lipid profile results in the medical charts
Exclusion criteria
* Unable or unlikely to follow and/or complete study or evidence of uncooperative attitude * Subject is not literate in either French or English * Subject does not have easy and regular access to the Internet * Exercise or weight loss are contra-indicated for medical reasons
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Feasibility of using health care providers other than physicians within a GMF to conduct a CV risk assessment and intervention on primary prevention patients | 10 months |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patient's CV risk factors and overall CV risk | 16 weeks |
| Subject's adherence with lifestyle changes and prescribed medications | 16 weeks |
| Satisfaction of the nurse | 10 months |
| Satisfaction of the patient | 16 weeks |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed