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Heart Matters: The Effectiveness of Heart Health Education in Regions at Highest-risk.

NCT04995900 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2240

Last updated 2023-06-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate whether providing a targeted heart health education campaign to regions at high risk of heart attacks will improve ACS patient's symptom recognition and response.

The intervention will be will be evaluated according to a cluster randomized, stepped wedged design. The clusters are eight local government areas (LGAs) in Victoria, Australia. The main primary outcome will be assessed in consecutive patients presenting to emergency departments from the six LGAs throughout the study period with an ED diagnoses of acute coronary syndrome.

Conditions

  • Acute Coronary Syndrome
  • Myocardial Infarction, Acute

Interventions

OTHER

Community education

Heart Matters coordinators will deliver heart health education to the community using HM materials and Partner resources.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart Foundation, Australia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Department of Health, Victorian Government

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Ambulance Victoria

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Monash University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-02-01
Primary Completion
2023-03-31
Completion
2023-03-31

Countries

  • Australia

Study Locations

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