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Feeding Education in Patients Submitted to Coronary Angioplasty

NCT01028066 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2009-12-11

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Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Coronary Angioplasty
  • Coronary Disease

Interventions

OTHER

Traditional

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.

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Sao Paulo General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Moacyr Roberto Cucê Nobre · Heart Institute HCFMUSP

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2009-08-31
Completion
2012-01-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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