Status:
COMPLETED
A Patient-Spouse Intervention for Self-Managing High Cholesterol
Lead Sponsor:
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Conditions:
Hypercholesterolemia
Eligibility:
All Genders
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
We examined the effect of a patient-spouse intervention to lower LDL-C by increasing patient treatment adherence. A randomized controlled trial compared a one-year, telephone-based patient-spouse inte...
Detailed Description
Background: Background/Rationale: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in more than 500,000 heart attacks and another 500,00 deaths per year. More...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- veteran
- elevated baseline low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level
- married
Exclusion
- no telephone number;
- spouse unwilling to participate;
- patient or spouse cognitively impaired, unable to communicate via telephone, living in nursing home or receiving home health care, or refuses to provide informed consent;
- hospitalized past 3 months;
- survival prognosis less than 1 year;
- active psychosis or dementia; no primary care physician at VA;
- no medical visit to VA in past year;
- enrolled in another study focusing on lifestyle changes
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2010
Estimated Enrollment :
255 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00321789
Start Date
September 1 2007
End Date
August 1 2010
Last Update
April 24 2015
Active Locations (1)
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Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705