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Comparing the effectiveness of enhanced motivational interviewing with usual care for reducing cardiovascular risk

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Cardiovascular disease (CVD)
Circulatory System
Cardiovascular disease, unspecified
Registration Number
ISRCTN84864870
Lead Sponsor
King's College London (UK)
Brief Summary

2015 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886569 2018 results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30180833 2019 results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31858966 (added 23/12/2019)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
1742
Inclusion Criteria

1. Being fluent in conversational English
2. Permanent residents and planning to stay in the UK at least ¾ of year. In our local experience of conducting
epidemiology and clinical trial studies, 5% of the African, Caribbean and South Asian population are itinerant which increases the risk of attrition, non-completion of the intervention and difficulty of measuring post-randomization factors.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Established cardiovascular (CVD) disease
2. Severe mental illness such as psychosis, learning disability, dementia and cognitive impairment
3. Registered blind
4. Housebound or resident in nursing home
5. Unable to move about independently
6. > 3 falls in past year
7. Pregnancy
8. Advanced cancer
9. Morbid obesity body mass index (BMI) >50 kg/m2
10. Current participation in a weight loss programme. When in doubt we will seek the GP opinion and approval

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
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