NCT03417128

Nutrition and Lifestyle Behaviour Peer Support Program Among Malaysian Adults With Metabolic Syndrome (PERSUADE)

Nutrition and Lifestyle Behaviours in Cardiometabolic Syndrome: Development of a Community-specific Peer-support Programme.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 96 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Monash University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The outlook of a community-based intervention targeting nutrition and lifestyle behaviour modification among adults with metabolic syndrome (MetS) has not been fully explored. The primary aim of this study (PERSUADE) is to evaluate the effect of the peer support intervention on the clinical outcomes MetS components followed by improvements in the participants' dietary practices, physical activity levels and lifestyle behaviours. The program constructed using information obtained from the published clinical and dietary guideline in Malaysia.

Detailed description

Aim: To develop and assess a three-month, group-based community peer support program for Malaysian adults with MetS. Method: The PERSUADE module will be constructed using the Health Belief Model (HBM) to address relevant health messages from the appropriate guidelines and recent literature evidence on MetS among Malaysian adults. Following that, a minimum sample of 96 Malaysian adults with MetS will be randomised, either to the control group, who will receive one-time standard nutrition and lifestyle advice or the intervention group, who will participate in a three-month peer support program using the PERSUADE module. The participants will be followed up for three months post-intervention with data collection scheduled at baseline, 3-month and 6-month. PERSUADE is thoroughly designed using the current available guidelines informed with gathered inputs on motivations and barriers towards healthy lifestyle among Malaysians. The program aims to improve the clinical outcomes of MetS component among participants of the intervention group, besides the impact of the peer support intervention on the dietary practices, physical activity levels and lifestyle behaviours of those participants. The successful outcome of this study can be an initiator for policy makers to encourage more rigorous promotion of such community-based programmes in the country.

Conditions

• Metabolic Syndrome X
• Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Peer support	Participants residing in the location selected to be intervene will to form at minimum 4 peer groups. This group will receive a continuous three-months, peer-led nutrition and lifestyle behaviour intervention through a series of peer gathering. Two participants from each peer group will be selected as the peer leader (PL). PL will be trained to deliver the content of PERSUADE modules and will be responsible to run a weekly peer gathering with their respective groups for the following three months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-15
• Primary completion: 2019-03-01
• Completion: 2021-03-01
• First posted: 2018-01-31
• Last updated: 2018-01-31