NCT00315978

The Impact of Patient Involvement in Decision-Making About Heart Disease Prevention

Decision Aid to Improve Coronary Heart Disease Risk Modification: a Pilot Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (planned)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether providing patients with information about their global coronary heart disease (CHD) risk and effective risk-reducing strategies allows them to make appropriate decisions about heart disease prevention.

Detailed description

Background: Low utilization of effective CHD prevention strategies may be due to many factors, but chief among them is the lack of patient involvement in prevention decisions. We undertook this study to test the effectiveness of an individually-tailored, computerized decision aid about CHD on patients' discussions with their doctor and their plans for CHD prevention. Methods: We conducted a pilot randomized trial in a convenience sample of adults with no previous history of cardiovascular disease to test the effectiveness of an individually-tailored, computerized decision aid about CHD prevention against a risk factor list that patients could present to their doctor.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Heart-to-Heart Decision Aid

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-06-01
• Completion: 2004-02-01
• First posted: 2006-04-19
• Last updated: 2007-07-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States