Does Statin Initiation Undermine Dietary Behavior?
- Conditions
- All English Speaking Adults From the Manhattan VA Clinic Who Have Recently Received Their First Prescription for a Statin
- Registration Number
- NCT00224159
- Lead Sponsor
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this research is to improve our understanding of the effects that taking cholesterol reducing pills have on dietary behavior as well as other health related behaviors
- Detailed Description
This study explores the impact of initiating statin therapy on subsequent dietary as well as other lifestyle beliefs, attitudes and behaviors.
Specific aims:
1. To test whether the initiation of statin therapy increases dietary saturated fat intake among statin naive patients.
2. To determine what role attitudes, beliefs, expectations, motivation, intention and self-efficacy regarding drug or diet therapy may play in observed changes in dietary behavior after starting statin therapy.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
All English-speaking adults who have recently (within 1 week)received their first prescription for a statin will be eligible.
Will include a history of any of the following:
- Prior CVD (myocardial infarction, angina, angioplasty, stroke, CABG. or arterial bypass surgery)
- Diabetes patients
- Psychiatric patients
- AIDS patients
- Substance abuse patients
- Prior cholesterol lowering medication use
- Inability to complete the interviews
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method How drug or dietary therapy may play a role in dietary behavior.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical Center
🇺🇸New York, New York, United States