The simple knowledge that practices healthy lifestyle are important to reduce or prevent the progression of cardiovascular diseases it is not enough for effective changes accordingly. To nutritional education be successful, needs to promote changes in eating habits and not just transmit information. This is a behavioral intervention study in 200 consecutive patients submitted to percutaneous transluminary coronary angioplasty. The participants were randomized in two groups: intervention and control. The intervention was a dialogic nutritional counseling and the control arm was a traditional nutritional counseling. All participants will undergo long-term follow-up for cardiovascular events.
Patients were hospitalized to realize elective coronary angioplasty in a especialized hospital in cardiovascular disease. All data were obtained by a trained nutritionist.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
200
The control group will have access to the nutritionist to clear any doubts about the diet prescribed when went out the hospital and will be invited to attend a meeting nutrition in dialogic character at the end of 1 year to ensure fairness in action.
The intervention group will go through 4 meetings of food education, to be held within the institution, with approximately 1 hour long, composed of 3 to 8 patients, who may or may not be accompanied by a relative. The first three meetings will be monthly and the fourth will be 6 months after the last one. Each meeting will be developed within the context of dialogic and participatory education, directed to the adoption of a healthy diet and prevention and control of cardiovascular risk factors. The meetings will follow the order: Investigation, Contextualization, Awareness and Strengthening the nutritional concepts, according to the didactics of educator Paulo Freire.
Heart Institute of Clinics Hospital of Medicine Faculty of São Paulo University
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Cardiovascular event (new ptca, cabg, ischemic acute syndrome, myocardial infarction) and mortality (all causes)
Time frame: 1 year (all outcomes) and 3 years (all outcomes)
- Evaluate changes in eating habits, according to the transtheoretical model to adopt healthy eating habits - Check change in food intake - Identify the nutritional status and cardiovascular risk
Time frame: 1 year
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