The utility of mobile phone in the prevention of coronary heart disease, through lifestyle modification – a prospective, randomised, controlled clinical trial

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• Conditions: Coronary Heart Disease; Cardiac Rehabilitaion; Cardiovascular - Coronary heart disease; Physical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Other physical medicine / rehabilitation; Public Health - Epidemiology

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000388910
• Lead Sponsor: Macquarie University

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2011-04-14
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3400

Inclusion Criteria

Patients who have been hospitalized at one of the participating tertiary care cardiac specific hospitals - (The Karachi Institute of Heart Disease, and the National Institute of the Cardiovascular Diseases in Karachi, Pakistan) with their first event (non-Fatal MI, CABG, PCI, stable and Unstable Angina)
Be of sound state of mind.
Willing (consent) to participate in the study.
Stable cardiac status on hospital discharge.
Subject must own a personal mobile phone with a SIM/connection registered in their name.
Willing to retain the same SIM/connection for the period of the study, and if had to change the phone number agreed to notify the new number to the study center.
No life threatening significant co-morbidity such as terminal cancer.
Primary care giver, nominated by the consented patient
Care giver willing (consent) to participate in the study
Primary care giver does not have coronary artery disease

Exclusion Criteria

Do not give consent to participate in the study
Not in a stable state of mind
Pregnant females
Don’t have a personal mobile phone and not willing to acquire one.
Life threatening illness, e.g., terminal stage of cancer etc.
Primary care giver have coronary artery disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Mortality due to cardiovascular and related events as assessed by data linkage to medical records[After Every 3 months after randomization (3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months, time point will varies for the patients according to the time of recruitment in the study), minimum of six months for the last patient recruited in the study];All cause mortality as assessed by data linkage to medical records[After Every 3 months after randomization (3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months, time point will varies for the patients according to the time of recruitment in the study), minimum of six months for the last patient recruited in the study];Rehospitalisation after participating in the study as assessed by data linkage to medical records, and personal or information given by primary care givers[After Every 3 months after randomization (3, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months, time point will varies for the patients according to the time of recruitment in the study), minimum of six months for the last patient recruited in the study]