Evaluation of a Lifestyle Medicine Practice

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diabetes; Cardiovascular Diseases; Overweight and Obesity; Dyslipidemias; Hypertension; Chronic Lifestyle Related Disease
• Interventions: Behavioral: Lifestyle Medicine

• Registration Number: NCT03739034
• Lead Sponsor: Ohio University

Brief Summary

This project will evaluate the success of the PI's lifestyle medicine practice.

Detailed Description

The main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the PI's lifestyle medicine practice over time.

Sub-objectives are:

1. Understand variables that affect success in application of lifestyle medicine to lead to improved patient outcomes.

2. Develop a model for practice evaluation that can be utilized for board certification of providers and practices that utilize lifestyle medicine.

3. Evaluate the reimbursement success of lifestyle medicine services as a factor of billing codes and insurance providers.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-06-28
• Study First Submitted: 2018-11-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-11-08
• Study First Posted: 2018-11-13
• Status Verified: 2022-03
• Primary Completion: 2022-03-01
• Study Completion: 2022-03-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-03-09
• Last Update Posted: 2022-03-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 71

Inclusion Criteria

• Adult patients who are seen by the PI in his lifestyle medicine practice at Muntean Health Care.

Exclusion Criteria

• none

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Lifestyle Medicine	Lifestyle Medicine	Patients presenting for lifestyle medicine treatment to prevent, arrest or reverse chronic lifestyle related diseases.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Systolic Blood Pressure	1 year	change in systolic blood pressure
low density lipoprotein cholesterol	1 year	change in low density lipoprotein cholesterol
Weight	1 year	change in weight
Diastolic Blood Pressure	1 year	change in diastolic blood pressure
Glycosylated hemoglobin	1 year	change in glycosylated hemoglobin
Total cholesterol	1 year	change in total cholesterol
triglycerides	1 year	change in triglycerides
high density lipoprotein cholesterol	1 year	change in high density lipoprotein cholesterol

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
exercise	1 year	average minutes of exercise per day
full plate	1 year	average percent of plate filled with foods high in fiber and water
fiber	1 year	average grams of fiber consumed on a daily basis
legumes	1 year	average quantity of legumes consumed on a daily basis
steps	1 year	average number of steps per day

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ohio University; 🇺🇸 Athens, Ohio, United States