NCT02249494

Mobile Application to Improve Nutritional Counseling Provided by Primary Care Physicians for Hypertension.

Nutritional Recommendations for Hypertension: Development of Mobile Application for Improve Knowledge in Lifestyle Modification for Primary Care Physicians

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the use of a mobile app could improve knowledge and practice in nutrition counseling performed by primary care physicians in Brazil.

Detailed description

To optimize the nutritional care in the context of the limitations of available time and knowledge in medical practice, the present study proposes to develop a tool of nutritional guidelines for hypertension, easily accessible, based on evidence, and then evaluate its use among primary care physicians registered in a center telehealth. The use of the mobile application tool will aim to improve the nutritional counseling, helping with prevention of other chronic diseases in primary care context.

Conditions

• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	telehealth	Use the call service offered by the Center for Telehealth Rio Grande do Sul to answer clinic questions with qualified staff and in real time. All physicians who work in Primary Health Care in Brazil can call when they have questions about diagnosis and management of their patients.
OTHER	nutritional counseling	Performing routine nutritional counseling in their clinical practice
DEVICE	smartphone (mobile app)	Mobile app, designed to provide nutritional recommendations for hypertensive patients, will be use. The recommendations will be based on the DASH diet guidelines appropriate to the patient profile: consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, milk or low fat dairy products, lean meats, poultry and fish, nuts, seeds and legumes, amount of fats, oils and sweets, as well as guidelines for salt intake and alcohol.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2015-01-01
• First posted: 2014-09-25
• Last updated: 2015-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil