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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
71
The intervention is an individual nurse-led counselling programme in addition to usual care. The intervention includes 3 outpatient clinic visits (at weeks 2, 14 and 26) and two telephone calls (at weeks 4 and 16) by a cardiovascular nurse during the first 6 months early discharged. The counselling focuses on cardiac risk reduction behaviour based on guidelines issued by European Society of Cardiology and self-management support.
Medical Clinic
Namsos, Namsos, Norway
Changes in self-management
Patient activation measure (PAM) consists of 13 items. The questionnaire assesses the patients' knowledge, skill and confidence for managing ones' own health care.
Time frame: from baseline to 6 and 12 months of follow-up
changes in health behaviour
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.
Time frame: from baseline to 6 and 12 months of follow-up
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