Optimising the treatment of chronic ischemic heart disease by training general practitioners to deliver very brief advice on physical activity – work package 5 (pilot study of a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial)
- Conditions
- I25Chronic ischaemic heart disease
- Registration Number
- DRKS00034641
- Lead Sponsor
- Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 120
Inclusion criteria GPs: GPs in private practice or employed in North Rhine-Westphalia specialised in general practice, aged 18 and over, who have German language skills and have given written informed consent prior to study inclusion, and who are willing to participate in the 3.5-hour training.
Inclusion criteria patients: All patients with a documented diagnosis of a chronic IHD according to ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases-10: I25.-I25.9) who personally visit their GP participating in the OptiCor study on the days of data collection and who gave written consent to participate in the study after being approached and informed about the study.
Exclusion criteria GPs: Participation in a comparable training or education programme on counselling patients on PA (regardless of the disease) within the past five years.
Exclusion criteria patients: severe language barriers, moderate to severe cognitive limitations, significant physical limitations that would massively hinder the performance of PA in the sense of sporting activity, as well as explicit instructions from the practice teams not to approach certain people about possible study participation (experience shows that this sometimes happens, for example, in patients with dementia, severe mental illness or an acute situation of the heart disease). Furthermore, no patients without personal contact with a GP on the day of the survey will be included in the study (e.g., if they only pick up a prescription, visit the practice to have their blood taken or visit a relative).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Practicability of the planned recruitment and randomisation processes for the subsequent evaluation study, the testing of all content, materials and timing of the general practitioner training in providing brief advice on PA (study intervention), as well as the methods and procedures of data collection including the pre-tests of the study questionnaires among patients with IHD.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method