The Healthy Heart Study: Investigating different ways of explaining cardiovascular disease risk to help people understand their risk and improve their lifestyle
- Conditions
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) riskPublic Health - Health promotion/educationCardiovascular - Other cardiovascular diseases
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12614000699662
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of Sydney
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 600
1. eligible for CVD risk assessment (not already known to be at increased risk of CVD)
2. aged 45-64 years (equal 5 year age group quotas were set)
3. men and women (equal gender quotas were set)
1. Currently taking blood pressure or cholesterol-lowering medication
2. Diabetic
3. Already known to be at high risk of CVD based on additional criteria in the Australian guidelines:
* have had a heart attack, stroke or bypass surgery
* have moderate or severe chronic kidney disease (persistent proteinuria or estimated glomerular filtration rate < 45 mL/min/1.73 m2)
* have been diagnosed with familial hypercholesterolaemia
* systolic blood pressure (the larger blood pressure number) is higher than or equal to 180 mmHg
* diastolic blood pressure (the smaller blood pressure number) is higher than or equal to 110 mmHg
* serum total cholesterol is higher than 7.5 mmol/L
4. Being unable to read health-related information in English without help most of the time.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary outcome: intention to change lifestyle (average of: improve diet, increase physical activity, stop smoking if applicable) assessed using an established 3 item Likert scale from the Theory of Planned Behavior for each lifestyle aspect<br><br>[Timepoint: immediately post-intervention]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method