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Veteran Peer Coaches Optimizing and Advancing Cardiac Health

NCT02697422 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 264

Last updated 2024-08-09

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to test if having a Veteran peer health coach will improve blood pressure control among Veterans with high blood pressure and at least one other Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor. The intervention will deliver brief health messages, discuss goal setting, and action planning around health behavior changes shown to decrease CVD risk, including healthy diet, regular to moderate-intensity physical activity, and smoking cessation. Facilitators, barriers, and costs of the intervention will be determined.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Community-based peer health coach intervention

The focus of the peer health coach intervention will be to deliver brief health messages, discuss goal setting, and action planning around health behavior changes shown to decrease CVD risk (for instance, healthy diet, regular to moderate-intensity physical activity, and quitting smoking).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Karin M. Nelson, MD MSHS · VA Puget Sound Health Care System Seattle Division, Seattle, WA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-30
Primary Completion
2022-01-06
Completion
2023-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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