Individual Nurse-led Counselling Programme for Patients Early Discharged After Myocardial Infarction.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Myocardial Infarction; Cardiovascular Diseases; Coronary Disease
• Interventions: Other: Usual care; Behavioral: Nurse-led counselling programme

• Registration Number: NCT02640274
• Lead Sponsor: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF

Brief Summary

The European guidelines of cardiovascular disease prevention recommend treatment modalities, such as lifestyle changes in order to minimize the risk of further cardiac event after a myocardial infarction (MI). However, a considerable gap exists between guidelines and their implementation in clinical practise. Further, less is known about the impact of different interventions on patient's knowledge, skills and confidence necessary for self-management after MI.

Aim: To evaluate and compare the short- and long-term effects of an individual nurse-led counselling programme together with usual care for patients early discharged after MI on self-management behaviour.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-11
• Study First Submitted: 2015-12-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-12-22
• Study First Posted: 2015-12-28
• Primary Completion: 2016-07
• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Study Completion: 2016-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-11-02
• Last Update Posted: 2016-11-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

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

Inclusion Criteria

Patients with documented evidence of myocardial infarction during hospitalisation will be considered for inclusion.

• patients over 18 years old
• living at home in the local hospital area after hospital discharge
• able to receive telephone calls, fill in questionnaire and communicate in Norwegian.

Exclusion Criteria

• cognitive impaired/dementia
• planning for coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control group	Usual care	usual care
Intervention group	Nurse-led counselling programme	The intervention is an individual nurse-led counselling programme in addition to usual care.
Intervention group	Usual care	The intervention is an individual nurse-led counselling programme in addition to usual care.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in self-management	from baseline to 6 and 12 months of follow-up	Patient activation measure (PAM) consists of 13 items. The questionnaire assesses the patients' knowledge, skill and confidence for managing ones' own health care.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
changes in health behaviour	from baseline to 6 and 12 months of follow-up	The SmartDiet questionnaire consists of 21 questions registering average use of certain group of food and lifestyle. The questions about physical activity is a questionnaire about frequency, duration and intensity of physical activities.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Medical Clinic; 🇳🇴 Namsos, Norway