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Grenada Heart Project - Community Health Action to Encourage Healthy Behaviors

NCT02428920 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2016-09-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The Grenada Heart Project (GHP) conducted an observational study within a randomly selected adult sample of Grenadians in 2008-2009. The aim of the study was to assess the clinical, biological and psychosocial determinants of the cardiovascular health in Grenada, in order to develop and implement a nationwide cardiovascular health promotion program.

The sample of 2,827 adults was randomly selected from the national electronic voter list. The main outcome measures were self-reported cardiovascular disease and behavioral risk factors, anthropometric measures, blood pressure (BP), point-of-care testing for glucose and lipids, and ankle-brachial index. Analysis of the data revealed prevalence rates of obesity, hypertension and diabetes significantly exceeding those seen in the U.S.

Since the completion of this assessment, an additional effort has contributed significantly to the current project. A parallel community health-promotion project was carried out in Cardona, Spain called the "Cardona Integral Fifty-Fifty" project with 80 subjects. The preliminary results of the Cardona study have a shown that peer motivation may significantly improve healthy behaviors and thus modify cardiovascular risk.

The GHP CHANGE community -based intervention aims to promote positive behaviors and focus more on what creates health, rather than what prevents sickness. It is built on the foundations of social support, assessing whether people going through similar challenges will support each other, work together to identify and address barriers to success, and motivate each other to move forward. In this program we test for the impact of promotion of healthy lifestyle behaviors through peer motivation on blood pressure, physical activity, eating behavior, weight, and smoking.

Conditions

  • Health Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Peer Groups

The intervention group arm will attend biweekly or monthly peer group meetings to discuss health successes and challenges.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Valentin Fuster, MD · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-07-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-07-31

Countries

  • Grenada

Study Locations

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